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# Amazon: On-Demand Food With Your On-Demand Booze?

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## Video: Amazon: On-Demand Food With Your On-Demand Booze?

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_Published 2015-08-26. Amazon launched its one- and two-hour delivery service, Prime Now, in Seattle. The company might be experimenting with on-demand restaurant delivery._


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## Transcript

In case you missed it, Amazon is putting it's one and two hour delivery service, called Prime Now, to good use by offering Seattle based customers on- demand beer, wine, an hard liquor. But according to Geek Wire, Amazon isn't stopping there. The company seems to be taking on the likes of grubHub with on demand food delivery. Amazon has been testing the service by allowing it's own employees to order meals from restaurants. Several new Prime Now drivers tell GeekWire they're the same ones handling restaurant deliveries. Basically customers will be able to use the Amazon Prime Prime Now app to order to- go meals.

Amazon's zippy Prime Now drivers will be tasked with picking up the meal from the restaurant and getting it to the customer. Now, on- demand food delivery is quite a project to take on. Not only are there loads of other food delivery startups out there, but the logistics involved can get complicated pretty quickly. But, if we're being honest, Amazon is one of the first companies that comes to mind when we hear the word logistics. Its business is logistics, and distribution, and for a company that wants to offer everything from A to Z, it's no surprise Surprised Amazon is getting into the food delivery game.

So long as you're in one of Amazon's select cities, for $ 99 a year, you can get one or two- hour deliveries of all kinds of goodies. But let's focus on what's truly important here. If you live in Seattle, you can get a bottle of your favorite red wine paired with your favorite Italian dish from a local restaurant in an hour. Welcome to the future, friends.

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