Amazon India has announced the expansion of its grocery & household service – Amazon Pantry to six more cities across the country. The service that is already present in Hyderabad and Bangalore is now available in Delhi, Faridabad, Gurgaon, Mumbai, Mysore and Pune.
Amazon Pantry lets customers choose for over 5000 everyday essentials from over 250 brands of groceries and household products. With Amazon Pantry, customers will have to fill a box with up to 15 kg of products which is then sold at the lowest prices. Customers will have to add products which have Amazon Pantry logo and fill the space available in the box. The box will get home delivered the next day. Amazon also offers themed boxes such as Breakfast Store, Party Supplies, Beauty Regimen and Continental Food.
The service also offers some selection to customers which is specific to pantry. The store offers essentials ranging across staples including regional brands specific for the relevant cities, categories like snack foods and biscuits to home needs like detergents & shampoo; child care products such as diapers & baby food to even pet products. All Pantry orders are shipped in special Pantry Boxes from Amazon warehouses near cities so customers can get their delivery the very next day.
A Pantry box can carry a full shopping basket of up to 15kg of products and as a customer shops, the addition of more products indicate what percentage of the Pantry box is filled, based on the product’s size and weight. Delivery charges are Rs.49 per box but as a launch offer, Amazon.in is running a promotion of a delivery charge of only Rs. 20 per box and free delivery for Prime customers.
Saurabh Srivastava, Director Category Management FMCG, Amazon India said in a statement,
After the success witnessed in Hyderabad and Bangalore, we are now expanding our Amazon Pantry services across 6 more cities for our customers. Amazon Pantry makes it convenient for customers to shop for grocery and household products as it saves time spent in travel, parking, queuing and lugging heavy bags from a store to the car and from there to a customer’s home. We are optimistic about delighting our customers in these cities with the convenience, ease and the fast delivery that Amazon Pantry offers.
It must be noted that Amazon Pantry is different from AmazonNow grocery delivery service that expanded to Delhi and Mumbai.