The Grapevine

Retail Wine Industry News – Black Friday from Amazon

December 2nd, 2013

This past week’s news from Amazon, 1 cent shipping on select orders and steep discounts on certain featured bottles, was overshadowed by the weekend announcement of a “skunkworks” project they’re considering. [level-members]

Drones – aka unmanned aircraft – to deliver Amazon.com orders in under an hour. NSA surveillance jokes aside, one wonders at the wine emergencies that could be avoided with such a service …

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I admit I double checked my calendar to make sure today wasn’t April 1st.

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