Amazon plans new one-hour pickup service in stores, Business Insider reports

Reuters

Thu, December 11, 2025 astatine 6:27 AM CST 1 min read

Dec 11 (Reuters) - Amazon is processing a "rush" pickup work that would fto customers cod ​orders from its stores wrong an ‌hour, Business Insider reported connected Thursday, citing an interior papers ‌and a idiosyncratic acquainted with the matter.

The diagnostic would let shoppers to spot a "unified" bid combining items from Amazon's online store and its ⁠physical outlets, according ‌to the report.

Retailers are progressively investing successful quick-delivery models arsenic they unreserved ‍to currency successful connected increasing request for instant commerce.

The e-commerce elephantine plans to aviator the programme successful astatine ​least 1 metropolitan country by aboriginal 2026, ‌though the timeline whitethorn person changed, Business Insider reported.

Amazon did not instantly respond to a Reuters petition for comment.

Earlier this month, the institution said it was investigating "Amazon Now," an ultra-fast transportation ⁠service for household essentials ​and caller groceries successful parts ​of Seattle and Philadelphia.

In August, Amazon began offering same-day transportation for perishable groceries ‍to its ⁠Prime subscribers. The work was made disposable successful implicit 1,000 U.S. cities, with plans ⁠to grow to 2,300 cities by the extremity of ‌the year.

(Reporting by Anhata Rooprai successful Bengaluru; ‌Editing by Anil D'Silva)