Skip to main content
  1. Home
  2. Web
  3. News

Amazon expands same-day delivery service to NYC, DC, and four more cities

By
Amazon ramped up the pressure on US brick-and-mortar stores on Wednesday, announcing the immediate launch of its same-day delivery service in six more cities across the country, namely Baltimore, Dallas, Indianapolis, New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC.
Recommended Videos

Amazon customers in the new cities, together with those living in locations where the same-day delivery option is already available (Boston, Chicago, LA, Phoenix, San Francisco, and Seattle), can order online from among millions of items seven days a week, and receive it to their door by 9pm on the same day. The cut-off time for orders is between 12.15pm and 1pm in all cities except Chicago, where you’ll have to hit the online checkout early – 7.45am – in order to see your goods arrive before the day’s through.

Pricing

Amazon Prime members are charged $5.99 per delivery, with no limit placed on the number of items included in each consignment. Prime membership costs $99 a year.

Non-Prime members can also take advantage of the service, though at $9.98 for the first item, plus 99 cents for each additional item, it could start to get pricey.

Once you’ve finished shopping on the site, you simply check the ‘Get it Today’ box on the left of the screen to see which products are eligible for same-day delivery. The e-commerce giant says the service covers items such as new movie and video game releases, tech accessories, everyday household items, health and beauty products, and back-to-school supplies, among others.

Expansion

The expansion of Amazon’s same-day service indicates the company’s determination to offer the kind of immediacy up until recently only offered by brick-and-mortar stores. The deal is bound to prove tempting for Amazon customers – especially Prime members – with the shopping experience becoming even more convenient for users.

Amazon is also looking into the idea of super-fast deliveries with its much-publicized drone-based Prime Air delivery service, a project that’s reportedly making steady progress.

Editors’ Recommendations

Topics
Trevor Mogg
Trevor Mogg
Contributing Editor
Not so many moons ago, Trevor moved from one tea-loving island nation that drives on the left (Britain) to another (Japan)…
How to change margins in Google Docs
Laptop Working from Home

When you create a document in Google Docs, you may need to adjust the space between the edge of the page and the content --- the margins. For instance, many professors have requirements for the margin sizes you must use for college papers.

You can easily change the left, right, top, and bottom margins in Google Docs and have a few different ways to do it.

Read more
What is Microsoft Teams? How to use the collaboration app
A close-up of someone using Microsoft Teams on a laptop for a videoconference.

Online team collaboration is the new norm as companies spread their workforce across the globe. Gone are the days of primarily relying on group emails, as teams can now work together in real time using an instant chat-style interface, no matter where they are.

Using Microsoft Teams affords video conferencing, real-time discussions, document sharing and editing, and more for companies and corporations. It's one of many collaboration tools designed to bring company workers together in an online space. It’s not designed for communicating with family and friends, but for colleagues and clients.

Read more
Microsoft Word vs. Google Docs
A person using a laptop that displays various Microsoft Office apps.

For the last few decades, Microsoft Word has been the de facto standard for word processors across the working world. That's finally starting to shift, and it looks like one of Google's productivity apps is the heir apparent. The company's Google Docs solution (or to be specific, the integrated word processor) is cross-platform and interoperable, automatically syncs, is easily shareable, and perhaps best of all, is free.

However, using Google Docs proves it still has a long way to go before it can match all of Word's features -- Microsoft has been developing its word processor for over 30 years, after all, and millions still use Microsoft Word. Will Google Docs' low barrier to entry and cross-platform functionality win out? Let's break down each word processor in terms of features and capabilities to help you determine which is best for your needs.
How does each word processing program compare?
To put it lightly, Microsoft Word has an incredible advantage over Google Docs in terms of raw technical capability. From relatively humble beginnings in the 1980s, Microsoft has added new tools and options in each successive version. Most of the essential editing tools are available in Google Docs, but users who are used to Word will find it limited.

Read more