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Amazon Pantry

Amazon’s dead-set on killing off the grocery store, with a same-day delivery service and even a Dash gadget for restocking items around the house. Now the retailer’s going one step further, taking on Costco and Walmart with a new program called Prime Pantry. If you’re a Prime member living in the 48 contiguous states, you can ship 45 pounds’ worth of household essentials — in “everyday sizes,” not in bulk — for a flat fee of $6. (Yes, that’s on top of your Prime membership payment.) Amazon told us the items available include “popular soft drinks and bottled water, a new range of paper and laundry products in popular pack sizes, single boxes of breakfast cereal, potato chips, convenience-sized personal care products and more.” Rumors about an Amazon Pantry service began circling late last year, and while the service is live now, the company hasn’t formally announced it.

Read the full story at Engadget.

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