Just a few hours ago, we picked up on the report that Google is working on an Amazon Prime competitor that will try to differentiate itself by offering same day delivery from brick and mortar stores. According to a Boston Consulting Group survey of 1500 consumers, only 9 percent said same day delivery would encourage them to shop online more often.

Still attached to old-fashioned paper books? Amazon’s Kindle may have competition from Barnes & Noble, but they’ve just handed them – and many other online merchants – a serious smackdown in the form of same day shipping. Local Express Delivery offers to make thousands of items available, to shoppers in seven major US cities, on [...]