(If you participate in the federal government's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and have a valid SNAP card issued by a participating state, you can get free access to the AmazonFresh selection without monthly membership fees.) What Locations Does It Serve?Īmazon Prime Now’s grocery delivery service is available in nearly 90 U.S. In most metro areas that AmazonFresh serves, an individual order of $35 or more (before tax) incurs no delivery fee otherwise, it's an additional $9.99 per delivery. (Orders totaling less than $35 trigger a $4.99 delivery fee.) Tipping is recommended but not required.ĪmazonFresh costs $14.99 more per month on top of your Amazon Prime membership.
You don't pay extra for an individual delivery as long as your order is $35 or more before tax. See below for the full scoop on how the two services stack up against each other on a variety of issues to decide which (if either) is better for you.Īmazon Prime Now's grocery delivery service is included in your Amazon Prime membership. That said, there may be situations in which the greater selection trumps other considerations. And while the glitch we experienced in one of our AmazonFresh deliveries was minor, that negative experience mirrors reports from other customers, according to Business Insider. Indeed, our members ranked it among the higher-rated grocery delivery services, just slightly below Shipt.ĪmazonFresh was among the lower-rated services in our CR rankings of grocery delivery services, mainly due to its membership price. In most situations, Amazon Prime Now is probably a better-and more widely available-choice. headquarters.īased on what we found out, the minor benefits of AmazonFresh's potentially greater selection are usually outweighed by its more-limited delivery options and the monthly service fee. We pored over both plans, we asked consumers to rate them in our online grocery delivery services survey, and we conducted a limited experiment in which we used both services to order fresh groceries and non-perishables via two-hour, same-day delivery to an apartment in New York City and a single-family home near CR’s Yonkers, N.Y.
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