Amazon is its same-day grocery delivery service with the addition of perishable food items in over 1,000 US cities. Shoppers can now add fresh grocery items like produce, dairy, meat, seafood and frozen foods to their orders. Grocery and non-grocery items can be combined into one order, checked out from one cart and received together on the same day. The company had this service in the Phoenix area last year.
Prime members continue to get free same-day delivery where available on orders over $25, and non-Prime members can still pay an additional $12.99 shipping fee to receive a same-day delivery.
Amazon in 2017 and has been making strategic moves to capture grocery market share in the years since. The tech giant has experimented with , and even opened its .
Amazon CEO Andy Jassey is the grocery side of the business to compete with the likes of and . Amazon says it plans to “expand to over 2,300 cities” by the end of 2025, with plans to continue adding more locations next year.
