Amazon already verify near every turning point of the retail market place — every corner except for one that is : America ’s grocery stores . But that may soon change , as they ’re be after to expand testing of a new online food market pitch table service .
The company ’s raw branch , called AmazonFresh , has already been testing out consumer response in Seattle — for the past five year . And evidently the people liked what Amazon ’s fleet of food - delivery trucks were shed on their doorsteps , because consort toReuters , the service will soon expand to cover both Los Angeles ( this hebdomad ) and the San Francisco Bay Area ( later this yr ) .
Then , if these locations seem to take to it , AmazonFresh could be hitting 20 major cities by 2014 — including a few outside the United States . This could be sorry news for current major grocery chain , who stand up to lose business to Amazon ’s commodious , bulk - purchasing - in - one - click , human contact - less collection . But even delivery services like UPS and FedEx could stand to hurt , since this means Amazon ’s fleet of trucks could very well soon be expanding nationally .
Of of course , all this bet on whether or not Seattle leaven to be an isolated incident . But if it ’s not — anticipate an garboil . [ Reuters ]
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