{"id":649326,"date":"2013-03-28T09:23:52","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T13:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=222744"},"modified":"2013-03-28T09:23:52","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T13:23:52","slug":"google-shopping-express-launches-with-small-test-in-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/649326","title":{"rendered":"Google Shopping Express Launches with Small Test in San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"

After rumors that Google was planning on launching an Amazon Prime competitor<\/a> that would offer same-day delivery on a wide range of products, Google has done just that<\/a> – in a small pilot test.<\/p>\n

Google Shopping Express<\/a>, as it’s called, is a local delivery service that Google says they hope will help people get items that they order online on the same day, at a low cost.<\/p>\n

Google has just opened up a testing phase for a small number of people in the San Francisco Bay area. If you want to look into being a tester and you live in that area, you can sign up here<\/a>. Tester will receive a free 6-month membership in the service which will allow them to have unlimited same-day delivery.<\/p>\n

Google is launching the test with only a handful of retail partners, including big names like Target, Walgreens, American Eagle, Staples, Toys R Us, and Office Depot. They’ve also partnered with a couple local institutions like Blue Bottle Coffee and the Palto Alto Toy & Sport shop. <\/p>\n

Google Shopping Express offers a single site complete with all of the products offered by the service. It’s all the local stores online in one place. Then, all you have to do is buy, select a particular delivery window, and wait. <\/p>\n

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As far as the eventual price and future of the service:<\/p>\n

“We\u2019re still working out our long-term pricing plan but early testers will get six months of free, unlimited same-day delivery. The pilot will expand as we work out the kinks, so please stay tuned,” says Tom Fallows, Google Shopping Express product director. <\/p>\n

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After rumors that Google was planning on launching an Amazon Prime competitor that would offer same-day delivery on a wide range of products, Google has done just that – in a small pilot test. Google Shopping Express, as it’s called, is a local delivery service that Google says they hope will help people get items […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7357,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7357"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}