�SEATTLE ? Amazon.com is in the early stages of testing a delivery system to 7-Eleven stores, the Seattle Examiner reports.
The system combines smartphone technology with the convenience of a local delivery site. Basically, the customer purchases from Amazon.com and selects a 7-Eleven store for the delivery location. When the package arrives at its destination, the customer receives an email that contains a bar code.
At the 7-Eleven pick-up point, the customer scans the bar code via his smartphone at the locker, which looks like an ATM-lockbox hybrid. After scanning the bar code, the locker will print out a receipt with a PIN that the customer will use to access his package.
What?s not clear at this point is whether having a package delivered to a 7-Eleven will cost more than a residential or business address delivery. It?s also not been revealed whether customers without smartphones can use the system.
The testing store has the locker storage box in a back room, but a permanent place for the box has yet to be determined. If the delivery system proves doable, it might be rolled out in 7-Eleven locations as early as next summer.
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