Amazon may create new grocery business from ground up

July 29, 2019

An internal memo at Amazon.com circulated before the company’s acquisition of Whole Foods envisioned a grocery store that emphasized fresh foods and prepared meals while storing non-perishable items on a separate floor that would be ordered online and delivered to customers at the checkout stand. After having had mixed results with Whole Foods, Amazon may be considering opening a separate grocery operation with some of the elements of its earlier vision.

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