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Google to Take On Amazon with Same-Day Delivery

TechCrunch claims the service will cost somewhere around $64-$69, which is $10-$15 cheaper than Amazon
By Maureen O'Gara
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March 11, 2013 07:00 AM EDT
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Reports have resurfaced of Google starting a same-day delivery service in San Francisco called Google Shopping Express for local shops to rival Amazon's ambitions for its Prime business.

Couriers will evidently pick up the parcels.

TechCrunch claims the service will cost somewhere around $64-$69, which is $10-$15 cheaper than Amazon, which charges around $79 a year for free two-day delivery of purchases on Amazon.com .

Reportedly Tom Fallows, an e-commerce product manager at Google, is in charge.

Google recently bought BufferBox, whose service lets businesses drop off packages close to the consumer. It also bought Channel Intelligence in a $125 million deal that gave the search giant lots of data on e-commerce transactions.

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Maureen O'Gara the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years, is the Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server News" for more than a decade. One of the most respected technology reporters in the business, Maureen can be reached by email at maureen(at)sys-con.com or paperboy(at)g2news.com, and by phone at 516 759-7025. Twitter: @MaureenOGara

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