Amazon will end Prime Now as standalone service, integrate speedy deliveries into main app and site
May 20, 2021 at 9:54 pm
Inside an Amazon Prime Now Hub. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota)
With Amazon offering increasingly faster delivery times not just one-day or same-day but sometimes a matter of hours the difference between Amazon.com and its Prime Now speedy delivery service has become more and more narrow.
Now the distinction is going away entirely.
Prime Now will be integrated into Amazon’s main e-commerce website and app under a plan announced by the company Friday morning.
Stephenie Landry, Amazon vice president for grocery.
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Amazon arrives in rural America: Tech giant delivers hope and concern to California town
February 9, 2021 at 1:02 pm
Darrell Schonauer stands in his family’s orchard outside Orland, Calif., with the future Amazon Delivery Station behind him. He was surprised to learn from GeekWire, not from the county or company, that as many as 200 trucks and delivery vehicles will travel in and out of the facility daily. (Photo by Chris Kaufman for GeekWire.)
“They are a company I’m sure you’re all familiar with. A large, national, international operator at the cutting edge of their particular field.”
That clue, offered by a real estate investor during a September 2020 meeting of the Glenn County Board of Supervisors, was the first sign that something big was budding amid the almond, walnut and olive orchards just beyond the city limits of Orland, Calif., about 100 miles north of Sacramento.