Shira Ovide, Columnist

Amazon’s Solution to Its Grocery Mess Is More Groceries

Only the e-commerce giant can get away with such a scattershot approach. 

What’s another food experiment?

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If a conventional company wants to experiment in an unfamiliar industry, it might create a small working group, make a tiny number of products, test what works and slowly expand if its approach catches on.

Amazon.com Inc. is not a conventional company.