Amazon's U.S. Packaged Food Sales Increased 48% in Quarter
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Amazon.com Inc. shoppers are buying more packaged foods, pushing the e-commerce giant deeper into grocery sales.
The world’s largest online retailer sold $650 million worth of consumer packaged food items in the first quarter, a 48 percent increase over the same period a year earlier, research firm One Click Retail said in a note released Thursday. Packaged food items include coffee, salad dressings, baby food, cereal bars, energy drinks and soda.