Google expands same-day delivery test to Southern California

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http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-google-delivery-los-angeles-20140123,0,190849.story



A Google Shopping Express delivery vehicle in the Bay Area. Google is expanding the same-day delivery service as a test for its employees in the Southland.

Google expands same-day delivery test to Southern California
By Tiffany Hsu
January 23, 2014, 2:39 p.m.

Google is bringing same-day delivery to the Southland in the first expansion of a test first launched by the Internet giant in the Bay Area.

For now, only Google employees in Santa Monica will be eligible for the trial run, though the company hopes to eventually extend the service to the general public. There are several hundred Google workers in the Los Angeles area.

When the program began in March in Northern California, only Google workers and a select group of applicants were allowed to participate in the pilot phase. But since September, customers from San Francisco to San Jose have been able to use the Google Shopping Express service.

More than 15 retailers, including Target, Whole Foods, Costco and Walgreens, are involved. Shoppers go to the Google Shopping Express website to compare products from participating brands before placing items into a single online “basket.”

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1. Hmm..

I very much like this. USPS just stole 96 cents from me on stamps. I hope Google can make a run at this.