Amazon Prime adds one-hour delivery in New York City

Seattle - Amazon.com is offering one-hour delivery of products from select local stores in Manhattan through its Prime Now service. 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.



"We’ve always offered our customers the chance to shop like a chef and get the highest quality food items from our stores,” said Andy Arons, CEO of Gourmet Garage. “Now we’re bringing our outstanding products right to customers’ doors, available only through Prime Now for ultra-fast delivery. 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.”



Local store delivery through Prime Now is launching in select neighborhoods in Manhattan 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.



To purchase from local stores, customers can use the Prime Now app. 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,” said Andy Arons, CEO of Gourmet Garage. “Now we’re bringing our outstanding products right to customers’ doors, available only through Prime Now for ultra-fast delivery. 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.”