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AmazonFresh the grocery
delivery service of Amazon is garnering attention from all retailers as Amazon
reported that it is seeing sales increases in all other lines of merchandise as
a result of its grocery delivery service.
Has Amazon found its last mile solutions in fresh food? Will AmazonSpotlight that delivers restaurant
hot Ready-2-Eat fresh prepared food be its next success?
Thomas Szkutak Amazons
Chief Financial Officer said during the company's third-quarter earnings call, that Amazon
was happy with AmazonFresh's latest entry into the Los Angeles
market. In addition Szkutak stated "It's
very, very early in LA, but what we see so far we like. We're adding a lot of
selection there on behalf of customers,"
Foodservice Solutions®
Grocerant Guru™ Steven Johnson thinks that everyone in retail should paying
attention to Amazon for when asked if the company was selling more non-grocery
items as a result of the more frequent deliveries to AmazonFresh customers,
Szkutak simply replied, "Yes."
Amazon has been
working on and with fresh food delivery for the past five years and is has been
testing AmazonSpotlight for only one
year. All food retailers should be
aware, prepared, and focused on new competition from non-traditional fresh food
retailers. Here is another example other
than Amazon’s success, Walgreens is finding with fresh prepared food in it
urban locations.
Today, Amazon in
the LA area is on track and preparing for customers that order fresh groceries
as well as other merchandise that they will be able to receive the items the
same day for most items or the next. If
Amazon can do that today do you think that other non-traditional retailers
won’t at least look at food?
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