Amazon delivered 8 billion items to its US Prime members in less than 2 days last year

Amazon (AMZN) announced Tuesday that its Prime members successful the US received 8 cardinal items connected the aforesaid time oregon adjacent time past year, up 30% from 2024, arsenic the institution continues to treble down connected speeding up transportation times crossed its network.

"We absorption connected savings, convenience, and amusement arsenic the cornerstones of the Prime program, and truthful convenience has to spell up and up arsenic expectations spell up and up," Jamil Ghani, VP of Amazon Prime, told Yahoo Finance.

Globally, 13 cardinal items were received successful little than 2 days by Prime members.

Amazon said that for its US Prime deliveries, fractional of the items delivered successful little than 2 days were groceries oregon household essentials. The institution said members saved $550, connected average, connected shipping costs.

In 2025, Amazon invested $4 cardinal to grow its same-day and next-day transportation to 4,000 smaller cities, towns, and agrarian communities. Last week, the institution announced plans to adjacent its Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go stores to absorption connected transportation services and expanding Whole Foods, which Amazon acquired successful 2017.

The institution is continuing to measurement up its investments successful faster transportation arsenic Walmart (WMT) continues to determination wealth into its ain transportation network, which the retailer says is capable to scope 93% of US households for same-day delivery.

Amazon expanded its same-day transportation work for perishable goods to implicit 5,000 US cities, with plans to grow successful 2026. In 2025, the institution delivered 70% much items successful little than a day.

"Think astir those buildings that we've present built, and we've retrofitted them with each the lessons we've learned, astir importantly, from Whole Foods, astir however to person a seamless, high-quality, freshness-guaranteed proviso concatenation acquisition for perishable items," Ghani told Yahoo Finance.

The institution besides expanded its same-day transportation web for its pharmacy business; successful 2018, Amazon acquired PillPack successful a bold determination into the pharmacy space.

Ghani said AI has besides served arsenic the "latest enabler" to summation transportation speeds, peculiarly successful its pharmacy segment. Ghani said Amazon was capable to chopped processing clip for patients by 90% compared to the pharmacy manufacture benchmark by removing the hold times, syncing data, and expediting papers reviews.

On its 3rd 4th net call, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said being capable to present much perishable groceries was the carnal transportation accidental helium was "most excited about."

"We started with a fewer markets astir a twelvemonth ago, and we were truly taken aback astatine the adoption," Jassy added.