Your Amazon Deliveries Are Getting 3 Major Upgrades This Fall - Here's What's New

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways 

• Amazon held its Delivering nan Future event. 
• The arena focused connected really AI and nan latest tech effect deliveries
• These benefits encompass prescriptions, medicine, and more. 

Amazon expanded from being much than conscionable an e-commerce tract to a marketplace that group trust connected for speedy deliveries of their goods. During its Delivering nan Future event, nan institution unveiled upgrades making those deliveries moreover much efficient. 

Amazon said that successful 2025, it will present nan fastest speeds ever for Prime members. In a blog station pulling backmost nan curtains, nan institution revealed immoderate of nan meaningful ways it is making those faster and much businesslike deliveries happen. Keep reference to spot nan biggest standouts. 

1. Building connected existing orders 

If you placed an bid and past realized you forgot something, you nary longer person to wonderment aliases dream that it comes successful nan aforesaid package. Rather, Prime members tin now adhd items from crossed Amazon to their upcoming transportation done nan caller "Add to Delivery" feature, launched astatine nan opening of October.

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It is designed to make nan shopping acquisition much convenient, pinch Amazon saying that customers person utilized nan characteristic complete 50 cardinal times to date.  

2. Quicker market deliveries

If you person ever placed an online market shop order, you cognize really overmuch easier nan process is than having to spell to nan shop and prime everything retired yourself. To further heighten nan convenience of ordering groceries online, nan institution has expanded its Same-Day Delivery work successful August to see perishable market items. 

That intends you tin person perishable items, specified arsenic caller produce, dairy, meat, seafood, and stiff food, delivered wrong hours aft you spot them successful your cart. Amazon besides added that its "specialized temperature-controlled fulfillment network" ensures that moreover perishables get successful a caller and high-quality state. 

3. Prescriptions and medications 

Amazon has expanded its scope to waste astir each merchandise you need, including medications. Amazon Pharmacy sells prescriptions, and it now offers Same-Day Delivery of medicine medications successful complete a twelve cities, which it announced successful earlier successful October, including New York, Los Angeles, Austin, Indianapolis, Miami, Phoenix, Greater Detroit, and Seattle. The institution plans to grow its scope to astir 50% of US customers by nan extremity of 2025. 

The measurement it useful is that Amazon collaborates pinch a drugstore stocked pinch commonly prescribed medications and integrates it into nan Amazon logistics web to present nan merchandise straight to nan consumer, according to nan release. 

Additionally, nan institution notes that Amazon Pharmacy is utilizing AI and robotics to expedite nan processing of prescriptions. Generative AI plays a domiciled successful deciphering nan hidden connection successful a handwritten medicine to validate it, aliases an online 1 instead. Meanwhile, a robotic limb helps pinch filing nan medication. 

Disclosure: The costs of Sabrina Ortiz's recreation to San Francisco, California, for nan Delivering nan Future arena was covered by Amazon, a communal manufacture believe for long-distance trips. The judgments and opinions of ZDNET's writers and editors are ever independent of nan companies we cover.