Amazon Is Offering a New Grocery Delivery Subscription Service — Here's How It Works

If you're a instrumentality of Whole Foods and Amazon Fresh delivery, Amazon's caller market subscription mightiness make things a small cheaper.

U.S.-based Amazon Prime members, who already salary $15 a month for a Prime membership, tin now access an added $10 market subscription that makes deliveries connected orders from Amazon Fresh, Whole Foods Market, and section market stores free for orders supra $35.

The subscription covers specialty stores for illustration Rite Aid and Pet Food Express. Depending connected nan area, nan transportation could get wrong an hr astatine nary other cost.

Prime subscribers tin already get nutrient delivered done Amazon — but without nan added market subscription, they have to pay $10 successful transportation fees for each Amazon Fresh bid beneath $50 and $7 successful fees for orders from $50 to $100. Amazon Fresh deliveries supra $100 are free. Whole Foods market deliveries usually costs $10 successful fees per order.

The caller work tin thief Prime members prevention money if they bid groceries much often and if their orders would usually origin them to salary added fees.

Amazon pitched nan subscription arsenic thing that "pays for itself aft conscionable 1 transportation bid per period from Whole Foods Market, aliases 1 transportation bid per period from Amazon Fresh for nether $50." Either action would costs $10.

Members tin besides get 30-minute pickup times connected orders, nary matter really large aliases small, and person privilege entree to recurring market orders.

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Non-Prime members pinch an EBT (electronic use transfer) paper tin entree nan aforesaid subscription for $5 per month, without paying other for a Prime membership.

Amazon is presently offering a free 30-day market transportation work proceedings to Prime members and EBT paper holders.
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Earlier this month, reports emerged that Amazon's cashier-free "Just Walk Out" exertion astatine its Fresh stores successful nan U.S. stores required quality reappraisal that was conducted abroad. Amazon decided to switch Just Walk Out pinch Dash Carts that way what shoppers put into their carts and springiness them a moving full arsenic they move passim nan store.

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Amazon started testing retired nan market transportation subscription past twelvemonth successful prime areas successful Colorado, California, and Ohio. As of Tuesday, nan work is disposable successful 3,500 cities and towns passim nan U.S.