Article is about food produce stores, not typical grocery stores that small town have. I think food produce stores are relatively safe still, Amazon Fresh lacks

Article is about food produce stores, not typical grocery stores that small town have. I think food produce stores are relatively safe still, Amazon Fresh lacks choice, no free delivery and have higher prices. They have to deal with fundamental problem of everything must go before it expires and that prevents offering long tail choice. However small town grocery stores which sell everything from toothpaste to cereals are in big trouble, I have watched 2 of them getting closed because of lack of customers. A big issue is also lack of smart software that can guide inventory decisions. They usually have ton of things that doesn’t fly off the shelves while customers getting disappointed with not finding things. You would expect these stores to have optimization software that identifies losers and replaces it with better options but they don’t. I would see them consistently run out of some product every Wednesday and not getting it replenished for rest of the week. I would think their software would detect this and get that item more but that would never happen! They can probably still stay alive if they had smarter software.