Amazon Business Adds Same-Day Grocery Delivery for Offices, Schools, and Gyms

Amazon Business has moved fresh groceries closer to the office break room, the school cafeteria and the gym smoothie counter. The company said Business Prime members now get free same-day delivery on grocery orders over $25 in most areas, with the service available in more than 2,300 U.S. cities and towns and stocked with produce, dairy, baked goods, frozen foods and other perishables.

For Trader Joe’s crews, the headline is not just that Amazon is selling more groceries. It is that Amazon is bundling fresh food into the same one-cart buying habit businesses already use for paper goods, snacks and supplies. Amazon said the rollout was designed for business customers shopping for break-room, team-gathering and client-event needs, which means freshness, speed and bulk convenience are now being sold as a single package.

That matters on the sales floor because it changes the comparison shoppers make. A customer who used to think about grocery runs as a separate errand can now expect temperature-controlled delivery, same-day fulfillment and a wider perishable assortment without leaving the office, school or studio. Amazon said it planned to keep expanding fresh grocery delivery through 2026, and said its same-day grocery push began in August 2025 in more than 1,000 U.S. cities and towns. By early 2026, Amazon said it had grown the perishable selection available for same-day delivery by more than 30% since August, including thousands of fresh items from Whole Foods Market.

Trader Joe’s has taken a different path. The chain says it does not sell products online, does not offer curbside pickup or delivery, and does not use third-party delivery services like Instacart or Dumpling. Trader Joe’s says those options cannot match its in-store value and shopping experience, the model it says has defined the company’s neighborhood-grocery identity since 1967.

That split is the practical takeaway for crew and managers. Trader Joe’s still leans on knowledgeable, friendly Crew Members, product discovery and in-store conversation to move baskets and build loyalty. Amazon’s expansion shows how aggressively grocery-adjacent competition is trying to compress the distance between ordering and eating, and that puts more pressure on grocery operators to keep fresh items available, prepared-food assortments sharp and substitutions easy to explain. In a market where offices can order berries, milk and frozen pastries alongside printer paper, store-based grocers are being forced to justify every trip customers still make in person.