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(60,364 posts) Sat Jan 25, 2014, 09:35 AM Jan 2014

Ted Rall: Cartoon for January 24, 2014: You Shouldn’t Have

http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/ted-rall/53820/cartoon-for-january-24-2014-you-shouldn-t-have

Cartoon for January 24, 2014: You Shouldn’t Have
Corporate America | Internet
by Ted Rall | January 24, 2014 - 8:54am

Amazon has acquired a patent for “anticipatory shipping,” a system that predicts your future purchases based on previous buys, site searches, and how long you linger on a particular item. Then they ship the item to a warehouse nearest you before/in case you order it. In the future, they may even load it on a truck before you click “buy.”