Amazon quietly jumps into the food delivery game
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Hungry after all that online shopping? If you live in the Seattle area, you won't even need to leave Amazon.com to order food straight to your door. The e-commerce giant quietly launched the still-unnamed service in Seattle last weekend during the Thanksgiving holiday lull, and while it's not perfect, the service could eventually be promising:

Nonetheless, just over 100 partner restaurants are signed on; delivery ranges vary, as expected, by location in the city. Food goes into your cart, and you of course charge the meal to your Amazon account. It still has kinks to be worked out, for sure — there's no way to sort by cuisine or search all of the menus at once, for example, so better build in time to guess and check whether you're craving yucca fries with your burger. [Grub Street]

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Samantha Rollins

Samantha Rollins is TheWeek.com's news editor. She has previously worked for The New York Times and TIME and is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.