How Amazon Will Kill Your Local Grocer
The online retail behemoth gears up for a big push into food delivery.
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Amazon's done it to books. And electronics. And clothing. Now it wants to rule the grocery aisles.
But Amazon still has a ways to go -- the online retailing behemoth has taken a slow, yet calculated approach to attacking the grocery store. After years of testing the AmazonFresh program in its Seattle hometown, it began expanding the grocery delivery service to other cities in 2013. Today, it delivers fresh fruit and meat in parts of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, California, Washington and Maryland. It also delivers food through its Amazon.com website and its Prime Now program.