Retail giant Amazon is introducing Instant Pickup, a free service offering items in minutes, the company said Tuesday, Aug. 15.

The free service is being offered to Prime and Prime Student members and includes daily essentials like snacks and electronics.

According to Amazon, items would be available in less than two minutes at five pickup locations, including one in Westwood Village, just south of UCLA’s campus, and at UC Berkeley. The other Instant Pickup locations are in Atlanta, Columbus, Ohio, and College Park, Md.

The online retailer operates 22 pickup locations centered around college campuses and could use them for the Instant Pickup service, Reuters reported.

“Instant Pickup is another way Amazon is making life more convenient for Prime members,” Ripley MacDonald, director of student programs at Amazon, said in a statement. “As shopping behaviors continue to evolve, customers consistently tell us that they want items even faster. Whether it’s a snack on-the-go, replacing a lost phone charger in the middle of a hectic day or adding Alexa to your life with an Echo, Instant Pickup saves Prime members time.”

College students get a 50-percent discount on the $99 annual Prime membership. Tip alert: College students who use Sprint can get a free, six-month Prime trial.

Amazon has a same-day pickup location at California State University Long Beach, but it was unclear if the campus would include an Instant Pickup.

The Instant program isn’t Amazon’s first attempt to infiltrate college campuses.

Many universities are adding Amazon Lockers, including the commuter campus of Cal State Fullerton. The university has had a set of Amazon Lockers outside the college’s student union since 2013. The self-serve lockers allow students to pick up or return parcels.

With the volume of Internet-driven deliveries increasing dramatically over the years, CSUF said it is considering adding a second set of Amazon Lockers to one of its dorm facilities.

Larry Martin, CSUF’s director of housing, said students buy an overwhelming amount of merchandise online — from books to clothes to linens from Bed, Bath and Beyond.

“At Valentine’s Day, the mailroom smells like a florist,” Martin said.

To help manage the influx, Martin said the school is “pursuing” adding another set of Amazon Lockers at the dorms to ease the gridlock in the mailroom. Roughly 2,000 students live on campus while another 38,000 live off-campus.

Internet sales are not slowing down. In 2015, e-commerce sales reached $294.45 billion and are projected to surpass $485 billion in 2021, according to statistical research firm Statista.

FedEx is also taking advantage of the surge in Internet-driven mail delivery on college campuses.

The company opened a “Fed Ex Office” at USC this month and one at Stanford University last year.

FedEx said working with universities make sense as more students make purchases online. In a student survey conducted last year by the company, FedEx found that 58 percent of college students make the majority of their purchases online. Roughly 65 percent of students buy most of their textbooks online, the FedEx survey said.

The “influx of packages” has put a “strain” on campus resources on the back end, a FedEx representative told the Register.

The FedEx offices also offer computer rentals, shipping lockers and notary and fingerprinting services.