As competition for speeding up delivery intensifies among online shopping companies, Amazon in the United States will increase the number of domestic delivery bases by 1.5 times by the end of the year in order to increase the number of products and regions that can be delivered the next day. It was decided to increase more than that.
As of the end of last year, Amazon, which handles online shopping, has about 30 delivery bases in Japan that sort out a large number of products carried out of the warehouse.
The Japanese subsidiary of the company will set up 18 new delivery bases by the end of the year, increasing the number by more than 1.5 times.
With the opening of the first base in 10 prefectures such as Aomori, Akita, Iwate, and Okinawa, it will be possible to deliver more than 7 million items the next day, mainly in the urban areas of 46 prefectures excluding Hokkaido. is.
By next year, this Japanese corporation will establish areas for next-day delivery to all prefectures nationwide.
In online shopping, the Rakuten Group has begun full-scale logistics services to deliver products on behalf of store owners in an attempt to shorten delivery times.
In addition, Yahoo is aiming for next-day delivery of almost all products by 2024 by paying a part of the delivery cost to those who open stores that are quick to ship, IT to speed up delivery. The competition of major companies is likely to intensify.