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Amazon Prime Now adds one-hour delivery from local stores

Starting in Manhattan, Amazon Prime Now will deliver groceries and more from D’Agostino, Gourmet Garage and Billy’s Bakery.

May 26, 2015

Amazon announced this week 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, according to a company release.

"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," Dave Clark, Amazon's senior vice president of worldwide operations, said in a statement. "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."

Local store delivery through Prime Now launched 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, the release stated.

"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," Andy Arons, CEO of Gourmet Garage, said in a statement. "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."