Well, after a few false starts it’s actually happened: Amazon has launched in Australia, with an actual homepage you can go to and literally existing products you can purchase with money and have delivered to your home. This time it is very real.
In what is a move certain to scare local retailers, they’re offering free delivery on orders over $49 with a one-day service in some areas. The much-vaunted Prime service – which bundles offerings like priority shipping, streaming and Kindle content in one package – is not currently available, with expectations it’ll come in mid-2018.
Similarly, the ABC is reporting that Amazon Fresh, the company’s online supermarket offering, will not be launched in Australia. There are no imminent plans to bring it here.
There ate 23 launch categories for products, including baby, beauty, books, camera, clothing and accessories, DVD and Blu-ray, electronics, health and personal care, home, Kindle, kitchen, music, office products, PC, shoes, software, sports and outdoors, tools and home improvement, toys, video games, watches and wireless.
It’s assumed the categories on offer will be expanded in the coming month.
There you go. It’s here! Are you happy?! Now get on with buying your old man USB cables for his birthday, because he keeps losing them.
