Ask Alexa to Bring You Booze Via Prime Now

With features similar ane-click ordering, Amazon already makes it really easy to buy things. At present it'southward about to get even easier for those with an Alexa-enabled device and Prime subscription.

Echo devices now support Alexa-enabled voice shopping via Prime Now, Amazon's two-60 minutes delivery service. The visitor said tens of thousands of "daily essentials" like diapers, dish soap, over-the-counter medicine — fifty-fifty merlot — are available but asking Alexa to order from Prime number Now.

Say you're ill in bed and nobody's effectually to fetch yous medicine. Just say, "Alexa, order Nyquil from Prime Now," and a bottle volition announced at your door in just a few hours.

Or, say you lot're partying with your friends and you run out of alcohol, but anybody's too tipsy to drive. In Seattle, you can use Alexa to vocalisation order alcohol, beer, and wine from Prime number Now with free two-hour delivery, and in Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio, you tin get beer and vino. Of course, y'all'll demand to be at least 21 to order, and show your ID upon delivery.

"Whether customers are in the center of a game night with friends and family, have their hands full with a baby or are too sick to go out of bed, Alexa makes it easy to go what they need right abroad through Prime number At present without taking out a phone or logging into a estimator," Amazon wrote in its news release.

This new characteristic works via Alexa-enabled devices like the Repeat, Echo Dot, Amazon Tap, Fire Tablet, and Burn down TV in more than 30 Prime At present eligible cities; click here to cheque if it's available in your area. You'll also need to exist a Prime fellow member and have a i-click ordering enabled.

When y'all ask Alexa for something from Prime number Now, the vox-enabled digital assistant will recommend a production within the Prime Now catalog and once confirmed add it to your order. You can order multiple items at once, and Alexa can brand suggestions based on the other items in your order (it might recommend tissues and soup, for instance, if y'all gild Nyquil). Once you lot reach the minimum lodge corporeality (which varies past delivery area but is $20 on boilerplate), Alexa will automatically cull the next bachelor two-hour commitment slot. If you lot take buyer'southward remorse, y'all tin can abolish within eight seconds by saying "Alexa, abolish my social club."

Those who use Prime number Now Alexa ordering before Apr 30 will become a $5 promo code to use on future Prime Now orders.

About Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo is PCMag's expert on fitness and smart dwelling products. Education yoga for nearly ten years has helped her in evaluating a range of connected health products including fettle trackers, heart rate monitors, rowers, smart scales, stationary bikes, force grooming machines, treadmills, and more. Angela also tests smart home devices from her ranch in Florida, including air purifiers, kitchen appliances, and robot vacuums, just to name a few.