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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2013
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Neil Scott Ackerman, Bellevue, WA (US);
Asanka Boyd Jayasuriya, Toronto, CA;
Nicole Andrea Petrich, Seattle, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
Techniques are provided for managing local item fulfillment. For example, a fulfillment management computer can provide a local item to a user when the local item is stored in a local fulfillment center, when the local fulfillment center can fulfill the order requested by the user quickly, when the price of a local item is within a certain threshold of the best item in a top level market, or when the local item is provided by a preferred item provider. The local item may be a perishable item (e.g., apples) and could benefit from being stored close to a user that orders the local item or be non-perishable (e.g., electronics). It may be preferable to provide an item that is stored locally to the user instead of an item that would need to be shipped to the user from afar.