Amazon has opened a same-day delivery facility in Daytona Beach ahead of the holiday shopping season, the latest piece of a Volusia County footprint that already includes a robotics warehouse measured in millions of square feet.
WFTV reported the opening on Nov. 12, citing the company. The station said the site adds more than 100 full-time jobs with starting pay of at least $20 an hour, and that eligible local orders can arrive in as little as one hour.
An Hour Costs Extra
Prime members pay $9.99 for one-hour delivery or $4.99 for a three-hour window, WFTV reported. Standard same-day service, the version that is not the paid rush option, typically arrives in about five hours. Same-day, in other words, is a menu, not a single promise.
The practical trick is proximity. WFTV said the Daytona Beach facility handles fulfillment, sorting and delivery under one roof, the model Amazon uses at smaller sites placed near the communities they serve. The company says millions of items can qualify, including household essentials, electronics, health and beauty products, clothing, and home and garden supplies. Whether a particular address and item actually get the fast option is something shoppers have to check at amazon.com/getitfast.
Up the coast, the price is not identical. Action News Jax reported that Amazon's Jacksonville same-day facility, with about 150 workers, charged Prime members $9.99 for one hour and $5.99 for three hours. Daytona's three-hour fee is a dollar less. The one-hour charge matches.
Amazon is hardly alone in selling speed. The Los Angeles Times reported in March that Target and Walmart also offer one-hour delivery, and that Amazon was already offering one-hour service in hundreds of U.S. cities and towns and three-hour delivery in more than 2,000. A still-faster product, Amazon Now, is a different bet: CNBC reported in May that the company was expanding 30-minute delivery to dozens of cities, with plans to reach tens of millions of customers by year's end, and that those drop-offs would run 24 hours a day in most areas where the service operates. That reporting does not put Amazon Now in Daytona Beach.
Five Sites, Very Different Sizes
WFTV said the new opening brings Amazon's Volusia County footprint to five facilities. Keith Norden, president and CEO of Team Volusia Economic Development Corp., told the station the company has become one of the county's largest employers, and that the opening expands an existing presence.
The scale behind that line is not subtle. On Sept. 23, 2025, a five-story, 2.4-million-square-foot Amazon robotics fulfillment center in Daytona Beach held its ribbon cutting, and The News-Journal reported the complex had already created more than 1,000 jobs. The same-day site is a different kind of building: close enough to finish the order, sort it and send it out without a long haul from a giant warehouse.
Amazon's local logistics history goes back further than last year's ribbon. In 2019, The News-Journal described a last-mile delivery station as a 66,000-square-foot facility on Mason Avenue, just east of Interstate 95. That account does not establish whether the station is the same property as the same-day facility announced this week. The new site's street address, size and construction cost were not reported.
Holiday Hiring, Separate From the 100
The 100-plus full-time jobs are not the same tally as Amazon's broader seasonal push. WFTV, citing company figures, said Amazon is hiring more than 21,000 seasonal, part-time and full-time workers across Florida, including more than 2,000 in Central Florida. Some seasonal workers may have a path into full-time roles. Those numbers are the company's, reported by the station, not a government count.
At the Daytona Beach facility, employees receive health, vision and dental coverage starting on day one, WFTV reported. Applicants can look at amazon.com/localjobs or text NEWJOB to 31432 for local job alerts.
For shoppers, the useful next step is less glamorous than a one-hour promise: check the address and the item. The porch drop still has a price, and the five-hour version is what same-day looks like when nobody pays for the faster clock.
