Amazon Stops Giving Holiday Shipping Cutoffs for Some Shoppers
- Annual deadline list doesn’t include slower, free options
- Retailers, logistics companies bracing for storm, holiday rush
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Entering the heart of what’s widely expected to be a record holiday shopping season, Amazon.com Inc. is making fewer guarantees to customers who want to make sure packages arrive by Christmas.
In each of the last few years, the world’s largest online retailer has issued a mid-December press release listing its shipping deadlines, both for Prime subscribers and those who don’t pay $119 a year for free shipping and other perks.