Amazon Pantry launches in UK
Amazon has launched its Amazon Pantry grocery delivery service in the UK. Amazon Prime members will be able to order from a list of more than 4,000 “everyday essentials in everyday sizes”, including food and drink, household supplies, baby and child care, pet, and health and beauty products. Amazon said that “thousands more items” will be added to the Pantry service in the coming weeks.
According to a statement issued by Amazon today (13 November): “Customers can fill up as much or as little of an Amazon Pantry box as they wish for One-Day Delivery with a £2.99 fee for the first box and 99p for each additional box in the same order.”
Prime members can track the space available in their Pantry box based on the size and weight of the selected items. Pantry boxes can carry up to 20kg and as items are added, Amazon Pantry shows how much space is left in the box. Customers can choose to buy as much or as little as they wish and if an order exceeds the size of the current box, a new Pantry box will begin.
Amazon has offered food and drink items for many years, having launched its “Grocery Store” in 2010. More recently, Amazon announced that it would be adding a small range of chilled and frozen items to its Prime Now service which offers one-hour delivery to customers in eligible postcodes in London and Birmingham. Prime Now will roll out to further UK cities in the coming months.
As previously reported by Post&Parcel, Amazon launched its Pantry service in Germany and Austria at the start of October, and it also debuted its new “Epicerie” (Grocery) service in France in September.
