Why on earth would I want to shop somewhere that I can guarantee will ship with FedEx? I'll actively avoid places that only offer FedEx shipping as it is.
FedEx is launching a new e-commerce platform as it competes with Amazon
Submitted 10 months ago by ooli@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/14/24038042/fedex-fdx-e-commerce-platform-amazon-rival-shoprunner
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shikitohno@kbin.social 10 months ago
Subtlysubtle@sffa.community 10 months ago
I feel like everyone has had a bad experience with one of the major delivery services and just decides to shit on them. I’ve had packages busted by FedEx, usps, ups, that guy that drops off packages from his unmarked van. Like I get 97% of stuff okay, but 3% comes broken from them all.
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I’ll believe it when FedEx isn’t a dumpster fire of a delivery service. Every time there’s been some bizarre issue getting my delivery, it’s been FedEx. One time, we ordered some furniture. One box on one truck came, we signed, opened it, and found half the components missing with instructions talking about a second box. We call FedEx, and “nope, says here just the one box, and we delivered it, idk, contact the seller”. While we’re trying to reach out to the seller, a second FedEx truck shows up thirty minutes after the first and delivers the second box. Like, wtf? Also, we had a fruit tree we order just fucking get stuck for a whole ass month in one of their distribution centers. It’d go out for shipment each day, and each day be returned. Finally, after a month, they just said “it’s not coming lol”.
Nougat@kbin.social 10 months ago
I'm willing to bet the vendor sent those two boxes as two separate "1 of 1" shipments. No idea what the deal with the tree would be.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
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athos77@kbin.social 10 months ago
Since Amazon has moved into shipping, FedEx wants to move into shopping.
scytale@lemm.ee 10 months ago
If the quality of their deliveries, especially Fedex Ground, remain the same, they will never be able to compete.
Zorque@kbin.social 10 months ago
That would require not stressing their drivers to the absolute limit, which is terrible for their bottom line.
ares35@kbin.social 10 months ago
fedex ground is still like the old rps, a poorly-managed collection of contractors and sub-contractors. only the air freight ('express') is really 'fedex'.
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Why does everyone and their mother want to emulate Amazon?
MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com 10 months ago
they want the same access to enshittification as their anti-Union cohort Bezos has created.
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 10 months ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The platform will integrate with ShopRunner, an online e-commerce store the company bought in 2020.
The company writes that sellers using fdx can ShopRunner platform can use it to “see shipments in near real time,” choose supply chain resources based on carbon impact, and to handle returns.
FedEx says when fdx launches in the fall, it will give sellers “more efficient, cost-effective deliveries” using its data.
The move appears aimed at competing with Amazon, a company FedEx has seen as a threat to its business for years.
That’s just a few years after the online retail giant built up a logistics operation that largely uses tightly controlled third-party contractors that Amazon insists aren’t its employees.
At the same time, Amazon was continuing to build up its own logistics operation that uses a fleet of mostly tightly controlled third-party contractors that it insists aren’t employees.
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JoMomma@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Lol
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Until they can make their drivers as reliable as Amazon drivers, they will lose.
While it sucks that Amazon drivers are endlessly surveilled, it’s a huge boon to people recieving packages to know when their package is coming and to not miss it.
To my knowledge, FedEx and UPS still just give you a delivery window of a whole ass day, and then if they just decide delivering to you is too hard, they just won’t.
Seriously just the other day, we were home all day, even had a note on the door to call us, saying we’re home, and we’ll be out in a moment to sign for it. Nobody rang the bell or called and no note that they ever even came to our doorstep was left. Nope, just got a notification that they missed us and that now we can pick up our package four days later at an Access Point. Kinda had hoped to get that package on the day it was meant to be delivered for a reason, you know. Kind of fucks up plans when they pull that shit.
Until UPS/FedEx/whoever else fix that aspect of their delivery services, no one will want to fucking use them. The inconvenience factor with those companies is way higher than with Amazon deliveries.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
UPS, for several years now, gives you a stop-by-stop tracking GPS plot, once the package is ‘in your area’ or is under like 6 stops from you, whichever is greater (this is anecdotal from my tracking packages over the last decade+); basically the same as Amazon (but UPS had the ability first). FedEx is still window-only.
Maybe it’s a region thing - I’m just a few miles from a large population center.
BillDaCatt@kbin.social 10 months ago
UPS used to give real time tracking info here, but that disappeared sometime in mid to late-2023.
Agreed on the rest though, Amazon and UPS delivery are both much better than FedEx. I could not think of FedEx being a good retailer until they can improve the quality of their deliveries.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I sure hope FedEx reads your post. I would love to see someone take down Amazon. I work from home, and the UPS guy knows, and thus does not attempt the typical fuckery.
MaxVoltage@lemmy.world 10 months ago
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I think you mean “by far the best is USPS”, and as much as I may complain about the shitshow the fed has made if it, you’re right. And they’re doing it with congress fucking their financing.
It’s very consistent, I’ve lost far fewer packages via USPS than anyone else (and I was shipping stuff 40 years ago, long before Fedex did resi service, and UPS was still slower than postal).
UPS has had serious tracking capability since the late 90’s, and Fedex had been barcoding ever package almost from the start. Both of them demonstrate what happens when you have your customers over a barrel - Amazon came in and is beating them at their own game (Logistics).
Really pathetic for UPS - at one time they were the largest logistics provider in the world, I think. With all that knowledge, experience, and capability, instead of looking forward they sat on their hands and focused on protecting their near-monopoly.
Voyajer@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’ve had both deliver my stuff to the wrong address, but the vast majority of those mistakes were from Amazon delivery (and off by much larger distances).
Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Literally last week the Amazon guy dropped every package for my apartment complex at the same apartment
At least my neighbor was friendly about it and took the time to actually deliver the packages properly
I baked him muffins as thanks
bradboimler@startrek.website 10 months ago
Okay I am a Amazon delivery driver Amazon app is very gps specific and sometimes it’s wrong by a lot and no way for us to know since the use their own gps.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 10 months ago
I don’t understand why they do this? Do they love wasting everyone’s time and money?
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I fucking hate amazon, but Amazon’s drivers are fucking awesome. Out there busting their asses and nailing it, usually as good or better than usps and ups manages.
Fedex is shit.