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A giant, mysterious Amazon locker has appeared right in the middle of downtown San Francisco

2014-05-15T18:32:36-04:00

Weird stuff happens a lot in San Francisco, and then there's this: a giant, orange Amazon locker that's appeared without warning, or explanation. Amid the throngs of tourists, Amazon's put what it calls "Giant," an aptly-named variant of its locker system that can be found in 7-11 convenience stores, and other retailers. It's plugged into power, and appears fully functional, with a keypad and display screen where people can plug in their confirmation number and collect things they've purchased online.

"Hello my name is Giant"

Short of that, there's nothing explaining what the locker is doing there, or if it will be a permanent fixture in the …

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Amazon lockers coming to Staples and RadioShack stores (update)

2012-11-06T00:48:47-05:00

Amazon Locker Credit Dave Zatz

Amazon's delivery lockers have been sprouting up everywhere since they first arrived in late last year, appearing in several cities in the US and UK. The world's largest retailer's newest partner is Staples, whose office supply stores are the latest to house the lockers, reports Reuters. Amazon Lockers function as single-use post office boxes, allowing online shoppers to pick up their packages at a time that's convenient for them, without having to schedule deliveries. Amazon has already partnered with a number of brick-and-mortar stores in the US and UK to house the lockers, including 7-Eleven, Rite-Aid, Safeway, and Walgreen's. We're sure …

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Amazon expands Locker Delivery to San Francisco

2012-08-07T09:51:47-04:00

Amazon box (STOCK)

Amazon Lockers, a program that lets buyers pick up packages from secure boxes in convenience stores rather than have them delivered to a residential address, has expanded into another major market. The Wall Street Journal reports that Amazon has set up lockers in several 7-Elevens around San Francisco, making it the fifth place to get them. Launched in late 2011, the program has previously put lockers in London, Seattle, New York, and Washington, DC; it's meant to be more secure and convenient than traditional delivery while saving Amazon the cost of shipping packages to multiple locations.

Some Silicon Valley locations were showing up last …

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Amazon Locker Delivery expanding: now available in New York, London, DC, Seattle, and more

2012-07-31T10:58:04-04:00

Amazon Locker Credit Dave Zatz

Amazon has been quietly expanding its locker service that launched last year, and now lists locker locations in Seattle, New York, Washington, DC, and London. You can choose to have your reasonably-sized Amazon packages shipped directly to one of these lockers found inside select 7-Elevens, instead of missing the delivery person or worrying about a Kindle sitting on your doorstep until you make it home from work. But it seems Locker Delivery isn't just in those four areas: as first noted by TechCrunch, Amazon has a tool to search for nearby lockers, and several Silicon Valley locations are showing up. So far we haven't had much luck unearthi …

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Amazon Locker delivery service spotted live in action, is expanding to New York

2011-10-14T00:46:40-04:00

Amazon Locker Code Access

We already got a peek at the electronics powering the mysterious Amazon Lockers that have been popping up at 7-Eleven locations in Seattle. It now appears the devices have gone live, and we're getting a look at them in action thanks to GeekWire's Todd Bishop. When placing a recent order on Amazon.com, Bishop noticed a "search for a locker location" option when choosing his shipping. This led him to one of the touchscreen-enabled locker banks at a 7-Eleven store on Queen Anne Hill. After entering a six digit code he'd been emailed, one of the lockers popped open, and he was able to successfully retrieve his order: a set of batteries. It's not …

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Amazon Locker internals revealed

2011-10-11T19:30:35-04:00

Amazon's Lockers are starting to show up in 7-Elevens around the country, ready to receive your packages and keep you from chasing the mailman down the street. The big, safety deposit-style box is a clever contraption, but when one Flickr user got an accidental peek behind the curtain he found it's powered by some simple and ugly tech. We're seeing a Draytek Vigor 2830 router, a 3G stick (those two might be working together to use out-of-band communication, sending signals sent to open the right locker door), a UPS, and what looks like a control box for the locks. It's not pretty, but we're sure it's getting the job done, and that's all that …

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