Amazon Dissolves Grocery
Delivery Service, Amazon Pantry.
According to a report from Bloomberg, Amazon has
announced an end to their Amazon Pantry program.
The move is presumably being made so
Amazon can focus on its newer grocery
services, Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods.
Household items will still be available for delivery
via those services. They also offer fresh groceries,
which Amazon Pantry did not.
Amazon Pantry products will
also be available on Amazon’s
main retail site in a section
called “Pantry Staples.”.
The products in “Pantry Staples” will qualify
for Prime’s free one-day shipping. .
Amazon Pantry, formally known as
Prime Pantry, was created in 2014.
Consumers could pay a flat shipping fee
of $5.99 for a box containing up to 45 pounds of
nonperishable household and pantry items. .
In 2018, Prime Pantry became a voluntary
subscription service that cost $5 a month for
free shipping and unlimited deliveries. .
It was then temporarily halted in March 2020
when the COVID-19 pandemic caused an
unmeetable surge in demand for its service.