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Would You Buy Groceries on Amazon?
Amazon.com has some hurdles to overcome if it's to succeed in the online grocery delivery business.
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Last fall, I wrote a long piece for Newsweek about big-box retailers, in which I concluded that Amazon.com had basically made their business model unsustainable; the only question was whether they could switch to a smaller, more curated business format before Amazon put them out of business. Now it's time to ask whether grocers should be watching their backs.
Yesterday's Heard on the Street column at the Wall Street Journal discusses Amazon's push into groceries -- currently operating only in Seattle, but expected to expand into other major cities soon. How worried should Safeway and Harris Teeter be?