Prime Now Gets Even Better: One-Hour Delivery from Your Favorite Local Stores
May 21 2015 - 3:01AM
Business Wire
Starting in Manhattan today, Prime Now will
deliver groceries and more from D’Agostino, Gourmet Garage and
Billy’s Bakery
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced its Prime Now
service will offer one-hour delivery from local stores in addition
to the tens of thousands of items offered by Amazon. In Manhattan,
customers can now purchase groceries, prepared meals and baked
goods from D’Agostino, Gourmet Garage and Billy’s Bakery through
the Prime Now app.
Local store delivery through Prime Now is launching in select
neighborhoods in Manhattan starting today and will expand across
Manhattan in the coming weeks. Prime Now will continue to add new
stores to its one-hour delivery service. In Manhattan, upscale
Italian marketplace Eataly and Westside Market will be the next to
launch.
“Our Prime Now hub in Manhattan is home to tens of thousands of
products that are being delivered to customers in an hour or less.
Now, we are expanding the service to include delivery from local
stores. So whether you’re ordering diapers and a big-screen
television from Amazon, fresh produce from D’Agostino, a chef-made
prepared meal from Gourmet Garage or cupcakes from Billy’s Bakery,
we will get all of the items right to your door in lightning-fast
speeds,” said Dave Clark, Amazon’s senior vice president of
worldwide operations. “We are launching delivery from local stores
through Prime Now in Manhattan today and will add local stores in
other cities where we offer Prime Now soon.”
To purchase from local stores, customers will use the Prime Now
app, available on iOS and Android devices. Through the service,
two-hour delivery from local stores is free and one-hour delivery,
available in select zip codes, is $7.99. Prime Now is currently
available in Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Brooklyn, Dallas,
Manhattan and Miami.
“We’ve always offered our customers the chance to shop like a
chef and get the highest quality food items from our stores. Now
we’re bringing our outstanding products right to customers’ doors,
available only through Prime Now for ultra-fast delivery,” said
Andy Arons, CEO of Gourmet Garage. “Using Prime Now to deliver to
customers in one hour is a no-brainer. It enables us to utilize
Amazon’s operations expertise and technology to reach our customers
fast with a high level of quality and freshness at prices that
customers would find in our stores.”
Tens of millions of members around the world already enjoy
Prime. In the US, membership includes unlimited Free Two-Day
Shipping on more than 20 million items, instant streaming of tens
of thousands of movies and TV episodes through Prime Instant Video,
over a million songs and hundreds of playlists through Prime Music,
free unlimited photo storage through Amazon’s Cloud Drive with
Prime Photos, early access to select Lightning Deals and access to
over 800,000 books to borrow through the Kindle Owners’ Lending
Library.
Learn more about Amazon Prime Now and download the mobile app at
www.amazon.com/primenow.
About Amazon Prime
Amazon Prime is an annual membership program for $99 a year that
offers customers unlimited Free Two-Day Shipping on more than 20
million items across all categories, unlimited streaming of tens of
thousands of movies and TV episodes with Prime Instant Video, over
a million songs and hundreds of playlists with Prime Music, early
access to select Lightning Deals and access to more than 800,000
books to borrow with the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library. Not a
member? Start a free trial of Amazon Prime at
www.amazon.com/prime.
About Amazon
Amazon.com opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995. The
company is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather
than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to
operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews,
1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment
by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire phone, Fire
tablets, and Fire TV are some of the products and services
pioneered by Amazon.
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