Amazon CFO Tom Szkutak Says Same-Day Shipping Not Feasible ‘On A Broad Scale’
Anthony Ha is a writer at TechCrunch, where he covers media, advertising, and startups. Previously, he was a staff technology writer at Adweek, worked as a senior editor at the tech blog VentureBeat, and was also a reporter at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing.... ? Learn More Same-day shipping has been reported as a key part of Amazon.com’s current strategy, but CFO Tom Szkutak offered a sort-of denial of those rumors during today’s conference call discussing the company’s second quarter earnings. “We don’t really see a way to do same-day delivery on a broad scale economically,” Szkutak said. He did note that Amazon is aggressively opening new fulfillment centers with the goal of reducing shipping times, saying, “We’ll continue to work on behalf of customers to serve them even better.” But he repeated that it’s not feasible to do same-day shipping “on a broad scale.” Now, that doe...