Amazon Home Services Expands To 20 Metropolitan Areas; Prepares For More Amazon Prime Offerings
Amazon Home Services is expanding to 20 metropolitan areas across the United States including Indianapolis, Indiana; Las Vegas, Nevada; San Antonio, Texas; Cleveland, Ohio; Trenton, New Jersey and much more.
Amazon Home Services is the e-commerce retailer's offering of professionals for hire such as plumbing, car repair, home cleaning, furniture assembly, and much more. The expansion may or may not include the rumored Home Assistant services first spotted by Seattle Times, which reported two job postings for home assistant position in Amazon's website describing jobs that would entail doing the laundry, housework, putting groceries and other essentials away.
While Amazon is clearly not building the big network of home assistants, the company wants to expand further its offerings in Amazon Home Services. Major competitors of the industry include Angie's List, which had incurred third quarterly financial losses of around $17 million which led the company to let go of some of its employees. Angie's List reportedly rejected an acquisition proposal worth $500 million by HomeAdvisor in 2015.
Amazon Home Service clearly aims to provide more satisfaction to Amazon Prime subscribers apart from its shopping perks and discounts. The company added Dash Replenishment Services as well as Dash Buttons which allows homeowners to automatically order detergent on Amazon.
For now, Amazon Prime members do not have perks when subscribing to its Amazon Home Services. But perhaps Amazon wants to increase the value of its $99 monthly membership to entice more subscribers in availing the service. In fact, Prime Reading service was added to the Amazon Prime membership giving book lovers with Kindle devices access to a myriad of books and magazines; add to that another $10 monthly fee for Kindle unlimited service.
The retailer giant has been relatively hush-hush with Amazon Home Services lately. Being launched only this 2015, its expansion to 20 new areas could mean that there will be more service offerings in the long run.
