Posted on 10/20/2019 7:44:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The company has a blank slate to create a fresh, differentiated experience. But its success in a saturated industry is not guaranteed.
The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that Amazon has signed more than a dozen leases for grocery stores in and around Los Angeles, citing anonymous sources close to the company. Amazon has not confirmed the news or released any information publicly, but if the reports prove accurate, its newest brick-and-mortar business could launch as early as the end of this year.
But what will the chain really look like and how will it operate? What will it be named? Will it sell Amazon meal kits? There are dozens of questions swirling around the move. Here’s a closer look at some of the most fundamental ones.
1. How will it approach e-commerce?
Amazon has the opportunity to create a store that's truly optimized for in-person and online sales. Given the company's focus on speed, expect stores to have back-of-house systems built for quick delivery and pickup fulfillment. The real question, though, is how e-commerce might integrate with the store experience, and vice versa.
Amazon could integrate delivery with its AmazonFresh service. Fresh hasn't been a strong asset for Amazon, but with additional cities coming online and core Prime shoppers already signed up, the service could become a physical-digital crossover similar to Ahold Delhaize's Peapod.
(Excerpt) Read more at grocerydive.com ...
not only is a mostly saturated industry - it is also a low margin industry
Amazon should just purchase grocery stores like Safeway or Food Lion and then have Prime deliver fresh food out of them.
Amazon is shipping expired food, from baby formula to old beef jerky, scaring consumers and putting big brands at risk
Amazon is shipping expired food, from baby formula to old beef jerky, scaring consumers and putting big brands at risk
They already own Whole Foods.
My biggest complaint about the big name grocery stores is that they are slowly eliminating name brand products, and replacing them with their own brand products. And most of their store brand products are cheap crap.
Amazon made Whole Foods worse.
What grocery stores have they leased now?
I have had nothing but bad experiences dealing with Amazon. Orders getting lost or taking twice as long to arrive as anything ordered on eBay, not getting the merch I ordered in the first place, etc. And I will NOT spend one more dime lining Jeff Bezos’ pocket, that human stain. He wants to own the world, and all you have to do is read a copy of the Washington ComPost and listen to the horror stories told by ex-workers from one of his Amazon distribution warehouses, and you’ll have an idea of how he wants to run it. He’s an existential threat, IMO.
gotta read the expiration labels on everything you buy from amazon that has a self-life, from paint to food ... send back anything with expired or near-to-expire dates ...
i bought some whole bean coffee from amazon that was completely dead it was so old ... never again for something like coffee beans that need to be roasted the day before selling ... i really should have known better ...
It’s not like they won’t give you a refund for expired goods. A third-party seller sold me old tea and I got an immediate refund.
I’ve seen them add more of their own store brands, but eliminating the name brands? I haven’t seen that.
Grocery Story Mangers will squeeze a nickel so tight the Buffalo Shits.
Well, there’s no Whole Foods where I live. The closest store is one your away.
“It’s not like they won’t give you a refund for expired goods. A third-party seller sold me old tea and I got an immediate refund.”
agreed. that’s why i don’t worry too much about expiration dates when i buy stuff on amazon ...
Which is just one of the items that can see a vast price difference, in which Amazon can most often be found to be more expensive than Walmart (not including 3rd party sellers on its site) than vice versa. However, Walmart does not offer the variety that Amazon does and "out of stock" items abound.
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