Amazon Adds Professional Home Services In Selected US Cities

[engine]

Amazon is now going beyond the physical shipping of goods and digital products by adding professional home services to its portfolio in selected US cities. I wonder where that might end; speculation could be exciting, but it's clear that it's all above board, and for Amazon's selected services, such as installation of a flat screen TV.

Amazon says,

purchase and schedule hundreds of professional services from wall mounting a new TV to installing a new garbage disposal to house cleaning,Amazon Adds Professional Home Services In Selected US Cities [phx.corporate-ir.net]

major U.S. metropolitan areas including New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle.

[LifeinAsia]

Will the cleaning people be delivered by drones? (An updated picture of Mary Poppins' arrival comes to mind...)

[dpd1]

If they actually found people that are decent, it could work. My mom is older and lives across the country. She can't even get her new TV to work right. But my guess is that they'll just hire the most low paid, under-motivated people they can find... just like their delivery service. I think they need to focus on what they used to do best. I think that has been slipping a lot the last couple years. No, it isn't reflected in their market value... Yet. But it will be.