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The online shopping [monster / giant] Amazon has entered the grocery delivery business in the UK. Its new service is called Amazon Pantry. A [traditional / traditionally] pantry is a small room or cupboard in a house where people put food, plates and [toiletries / cutlery] . Amazon's new product will provide customers with a next-day [delivered / delivery] service of groceries. It will [mean / meaning] there will be a lot of competition for the UK's traditional supermarkets. Amazon Pantry customers will be able to [select / selection] from more than 4,000 [goods / good] ranging from food and drinks to health and beauty [production / products] . Customers will not be able to buy fresh fruit and vegetables [yet / still] . A new service for this called Amazon Fresh is in the planning stage and will be [availability / available] later.

UK shoppers may not be all [rushed / rushing] to use Amazon's new grocery delivery service. There is a [charge / charges] . All customers must already be [members / membership] of Amazon's express delivery service Amazon Prime, which [costs / cost] $120 a year. They will also have to pay a delivery charge of $4.50 for the first 20kg [for / of] shopping. Amazon Pantry spokeswoman Helene Parthenay said she thought people would like the [convenient / convenience] of the service. She said it would, "take the [heavy / heavily] lifting out of replenishing the [basically / basics] and store cupboard essentials that people need every day." She added: "We are always looking to [innovate / renovate] on behalf of our customers and [find / found] ways to save them time and money."