Amazon now offers one-hour and three-hour delivery options in select areas

Remember when two-day shipping seemed like a new thing? “Wow – I can order this item on Amazon on Monday and receive it on Wednesday? That’s amazing!” Orders are coming in now the next daysometimes as early as 4am I’m all about convenience, but how much faster do deliveries really need to be?

The answer is obviously a lot faster. on tuesday Amazon announced two new delivery options for customers in “a growing number of cities and towns:” For more than 90,000 products in the Amazon store, the company will let you choose to receive the item in three hours or less. For those in select areas, you’ll even have the option to get it right away one hour.

For these new delivery options, Amazon is focusing on items you might expect to find at your local grocery store. This includes “everyday essentials” such as pantry, cleaning, health and beauty products, and over-the-counter medications. Items expand beyond these to include electronics, toys, clothing, accessories and even home and garden supplies.

If a product qualifies for one-hour or three-three delivery, you’ll see this advertised next to the item name. You can also search for products that can be delivered in one or three hours, as well as browse existing “Same day shop‘ to find items that can be shipped as quickly.

Amazon says one-hour delivery is available to customers in “hundreds” of U.S. cities, including the following: Los Angeles, Chicago, Oklahoma City, Nashville, Houston, Washington, D.C., as well as smaller cities such as Des Moines, Iowa; Boise, Idaho; and American Fork, Utah. Three-hour delivery is more common, available in over 2,000 cities, including large, medium and small cities and their suburbs. Amazon didn’t name many of them, but listed suburbs like Cornwall, Pennsylvania; Harrah, Oklahoma; and Arabi, La. You can check if your area supports these new delivery windows from Amazon’s site here.

However, these new delivery times are not free. For standard customers, one-hour delivery is $19.99, while three-hour delivery is $14.99. If you have Prime, you get a decent discount: $9.99 for one-hour delivery and $4.99 for three-hour delivery.

Amazon implements these changes in advance its big spring salewhich starts on March 25th and runs until March 31st. Perhaps the company is banking that certain customers will want to get their discounted items as quickly as possible — even if that means paying a hefty fee for that speedy delivery.