Amazon Is Delivering Groceries Only To Park Slope

Watch your back, Food Coop — Amazon is moving in on your territory.

Starting today, the mega-retailer begins its grocery delivery service, called Amazon Fresh, and it chose to start here in Park Slope before eventually expanding to other Brooklyn neighborhoods, reports Re/code.

Currently, the service is only available to Amazon Prime customers — a service that costs $99 — and Re/code notes that delivery is free through the end of the year, but next year you’ll have to shell out $299 for membership if you want to keep using the delivery service.

Looks like it’s done by zip code, and the only one we could get into the service with was 11215. If you place an order by 10am, you can get it delivered the same day, otherwise it will arrive the next day.

So what can you get? Pumpernickel rolls from Greenwood Heights business Baked in Brooklyn are $2.89, Blue Marble strawberry ice cream is $6.16, Gorilla coffee beans are $14.50, three pounds of Gala apples from Pennsylvania at $3.99, and so on. And while the focus is on groceries, they’ll also pack in electronics and books and other stuff that they do one-day delivery on, as well.

Anyone think you’ll use it? Or are you happy with your Coop membership, or picking stuff up (or even getting things delivered) from other local places?

Photo by John