Stop everything, Seattle: Amazon will bring liquor to you in an hour

[steve2470]

http://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-dd-amazon-one-hour-booze-delivery-20150826-story.html

(yes original headline)

The next time you're out of liquor at a party or can't bear to get up from the couch to go buy beer, and you're in certain parts of Seattle, Amazon wants to help.


The online retailer has added alcohol to a growing number of items its Prime Now members can order for one-hour delivery, but only in the company's hometown of Seattle.

Here's how it works: If you pay $99 a year to be an Amazon Prime member (which includes free two-day shipping, video streaming, etc.), then you can download the Prime Now app for Android and iPhone. The app includes a number of items for delivery, including beer, wine and liquor, milk, ice cream and toilet paper. Because you never know when you're going to need an emergency ice cream sundae and a bottle of wine. Plus, if your big-screen TV breaks during an important game, you can have one of those delivered in an hour or less too.

If you use the app for two-hour delivery, the service is free. Want that bottle of tequila at your door in an hour or less? It will cost you an extra $7.99. In a nod to the limits of convenience, you can also only use this magical service from 8 a.m. to midnight.

[yeoman6987]

1. That is really a good idea

I was just at a party where we had to go get more beer. It is a pain. Yes you have the person who doesn't drink but must stop their fun to go get the beer. He actually went twice from a 1 pm party to 4 am party with about 100 people.

[hunter]

2. My crazy grandma would have loved that.

Do they deliver to nursing homes?

Usually my grandma bribed some minimum wage nursing home worker to bring her booze and whatever else she needed when she felt like it was time for a grand nursing home rave.

Soon after she'd be kicked out of the nursing home to live with my mom and dad until she couldn't, and had to move to some other supervised place.

My grandma couldn't live alone and unsupervised, she'd been removed from her own home as a danger to herself and others. At her worst she had guns and knives.