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Amazon Launches New One-Hour Delivery Service

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GETTY 121814 AmazonPkg?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1418926747216iStock Editorial/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Amazon is now offering one- and two-hour deliveries on “tens of thousands of daily essentials,” which begs the question, when would you possibly need something that quickly?

The new service Prime Now is available starting Thursday from 6 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week in certain parts of Manhattan, New York. Amazon is rolling out Prime Now in additional cities in 2015. Prime members can download the Prime Now app to be notified when the service is available in their area.

“There are times when you can’t make it to the store and other times when you simply don’t want to go,” Dave Clark, Amazon’s senior vice president of worldwide operations, said in a statement. “There are so many reasons to skip the trip and now Prime members in Manhattan can get the items they need delivered in an hour or less.”

Two-hour delivery is free and one-hour delivery costs $7.99, in addition to the $99 a year that Prime members pay for things like two-day delivery and streaming video.


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