“Customers really trust Amazon’s fulfillment offerings.”Those shoppers include Carissa Vinovskis, 26, who puts in 12-hour days researching diabetes at Children’s Hospital Colorado. Panic set in fast in the middle of this month when Ms. Vinovskis realized she had just six days to get presents before visiting her parents. “I was like, welp, Amazon Prime it is!” she said. About a year later, Kozmo shut down. Almost a decade later, it started Prime Now, which delivers goods in as little as an hour in 30 cities.

Source: New York Times December 21, 2018 10:00 UTC