B2B marketplace Amazon Business is expanding its same-day delivery of fresh groceries to businesses across the U.S.
The consumer side, Amazon.com, has been expanding its same-day grocery delivery throughout 2025 and in early 2026. Now, the B2B side is getting the same treatment. Amazon Business is offering the grocery delivery option to more than 2,300 cities and towns in the U.S. Those areas align with the locations served on its consumer-facing side.
The company is using the same fulfillment network for both the consumer and business sides, an Amazon spokesperson told Digital Commerce 360.
“What we’re able to do is leverage the same network as Amazon.com. However, it’s fit into the need set for Amazon Business customers,” the spokesperson told Digital Commerce 360. “Your deliveries arrive during set business hours. You can have multiple buyers across the single account buying for the business for different job sites — and get everything delivered in the time window that you want.”
The spokesperson pointed to an example of Amazon Business now delivering bagels, cream cheese and fresh fruit to offices around the country, adding those products to the same cart on the B2B marketplace as the rest of their supplies. From a business standpoint, the entire order remains a single checkout with a single invoice, the spokesperson told Digital Commerce 360.
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Why did Amazon Business start offering same-day grocery delivery?
The company said adding fresh, perishable groceries to orders comes as a direct response to customer requests. Now, Amazon Business is selling dairy, produce, baked goods and frozen foods from both national and local brands, it said in its announcement.
Amazon referred to itself as the second-largest grocer in the U.S., citing its $150 billion in gross sales.
“We’re continuously innovating to make business buying simpler, faster, and more cost-effective for our customers,” said Shelley Salomon, vice president of Amazon Business, in a statement. “Our customers have been asking for an easier way to order fresh groceries alongside the everyday business essentials they rely on to run their operations.”
Amazon Business said it delivers orders “within set delivery hours and preferences.” Customers can select delivery windows at checkout, it added.
To deliver the perishables that day, Amazon Business is using Amazon’s temperature-controlled fulfillment network. It said “Amazon will make it right” if perishable groceries displaying the company’s “freshness guarantee” badge do not arrive as expected.
“This is a natural next step and an extension to what Amazon has been doing to meet the needs of our everyday shoppers,” the spokesperson told Digital Commerce 360.
The spokesperson said Amazon Business is rolling out the offering because businesses have “similar needs in different channels.” The Amazon Business B2B marketplace’s customer base includes office-based businesses, restaurant operators, food-based wholesalers and more, the spokesperson said.
Which businesses can buy groceries from Amazon Business?
The offering is limited to the United States, as of the initial announcement. Amazon Business Prime members will receive same-day delivery for free “in most areas” if orders meet a $25 threshold. For orders that do not meet that threshold, the company is charging a $2.99 fee.
And for Amazon Business customers without a Business Prime membership, the service comes with a $12.99 fee.
“This probably will have the most benefit for those customers who are in that business-buying situation that are just looking to add a couple of things to their Amazon Business order and simplify their business-buying by cutting out another vendor,” the spokesperson told Digital Commerce 360. “The impact here is you now have one less vendor to deal with because Amazon Business can provide you with your fresh milk, coffee creamer or cream cheese to go on bagels.”
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