"When customers ship Amazon orders to an Amazon Locker, they can pick up their packages at a time and place that's convenient for them, " said Amazon's Ms. Osako.
Wine salesman Robert Thorpe, 35 years old, last month had his Sonicare electric toothbrush delivered to an Amazon Locker in a grocery store in Manhattan instead of his typical apartment-building drop-off.
Amazon's locker service has an impressive set of capabilities, which expand the value of owning music.
Users don't pay extra to use the service but the locker program helps Amazon save on certain shipping costs.
Akamai operates a global network of servers that help large online shopping retailers like Amazon, Nordstrom, Foot Locker, and consumer-focused companies like Cathay Pacific, Audi, and Best Buy deliver content to their end users.
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Amazon recently announced Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player, an online media locker that allows users to store and stream media in the Cloud.
But IBISWorld reports Amazon (which owns Zappos) and Foot Locker are the industry leaders and the two companies only capture 16 percent of online shoe sales between them.
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Amazon.com (AMZN) late Monday announced the launch of Amazon Cloud Drive, a Web-based online locker service, with a particular focus on music storage.
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The service is unlikely to be tied to an online music store like Amazon MP3, which gives users the option of adding new songs to their music locker at the time they buy them.
Still using Rotten Tomatoes' Tomato Meter as a method for ranking the quality of movies, the new site gives streaming and downloadable access to flicks in your UltraViolet locker as well as direct access to copies from iTunes, Vudu, Amazon or Netflix for purchase, rental or subscription viewing.
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