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Literally everything? Is Amazon selling any type of food? In any event, I don't think they're working with fresh (or even frozen) food anytime soon. An idea th

Literally everything? Is Amazon selling any type of food? In any event, I don't think they're working with fresh (or even frozen) food anytime soon. An idea that I've been thinking about for a while is an Amazon for perishable commodities. At least here in Western Europe, fresh produce has ridiculous markups. It seems obvious that producers and consumers get abused by distributors. I have the feeling that there's an opportunity in delivering to the customer's home, offering competitive prices in exchange for predictability (repeat orders, preorders, orders with flexible delivery dates, machine learned purchase patterns) that would let one move high volumes without keeping much stock. To begin with one could focus on organic produce, which (again, in my area) has trouble finding shelf space. I haven't discarded this idea yet, but I wouldn't mind if someone out there gave it a go first :).

mbrubeck 17y ago
http://www.amazon.com/grocery-breakfast-foods-snacks-organic/b/ref=sd_allcat_gro?ie=UTF8&node=16310101 http://www.amazon.com/grocery-breakfast-foods-snacks-organic... http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Organic-Grocery/b/ref=sd_allcat_nto?ie=UTF8&node=51537011 http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Organic-Grocery/b/ref=sd_allca... http://www.amazon.com/gourmet-food-gifts-chocolate-seafood/b/ref=sd_allcat_gf?ie=UTF8&node=3370831 http://www.amazon.com/gourmet-food-gifts-chocolate-seafood/b... The above links go to the Grocery, Natural + Organic, and Gourmet Foods departments at Amazon. These mostly sell non-perishable items, but do include some frozen foods. http://fresh.amazon.com/ http://fresh.amazon.com/ Amazon Fresh is a pilot program, currently in the Seattle area only. It features just about everything you can get at a grocery store, plus a partial selection of items from regular Amazon departments (books, music, electronics, etc.). A lot of companies went bankrupt trying to do this; Amazon seems to be taking baby steps to make sure it can be profitable.
dagw 17y ago
I don't know about the rest of Europe, but here in Sweden there are at least two or three companies in the delivering boxes of organic vegetables to your door once a week business. They basically rely on orders in advance, fixed delivery schedule and certain amount of flexibility in exactly what is delivered which means they don't have to keep much stock.

mbrubeck 17y ago

http://www.amazon.com/grocery-breakfast-foods-snacks-organic/b/ref=sd_allcat_gro?ie=UTF8&node=16310101 http://www.amazon.com/grocery-breakfast-foods-snacks-organic... http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Organic-Grocery/b/ref=sd_allcat_nto?ie=UTF8&node=51537011 http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Organic-Grocery/b/ref=sd_allca... http://www.amazon.com/gourmet-food-gifts-chocolate-seafood/b/ref=sd_allcat_gf?ie=UTF8&node=3370831 http://www.amazon.com/gourmet-food-gifts-chocolate-seafood/b... The above links go to the Grocery, Natural + Organic, and Gourmet Foods departments at Amazon. These mostly sell non-perishable items, but do include some frozen foods. http://fresh.amazon.com/ http://fresh.amazon.com/ Amazon Fresh is a pilot program, currently in the Seattle area only. It features just about everything you can get at a grocery store, plus a partial selection of items from regular Amazon departments (books, music, electronics, etc.). A lot of companies went bankrupt trying to do this; Amazon seems to be taking baby steps to make sure it can be profitable.

dagw 17y ago

I don't know about the rest of Europe, but here in Sweden there are at least two or three companies in the delivering boxes of organic vegetables to your door once a week business. They basically rely on orders in advance, fixed delivery schedule and certain amount of flexibility in exactly what is delivered which means they don't have to keep much stock.