Amazon has finally taken the plunge into online groceries - non perishables only.
So Peapod have the heavy weight of the online distrubution game to play with now.
If you don't know - Webvan (an online food retailer) went bankrupt in 2001 at the top of the dot com bomb along with other spectacular businesses. check out wikipedia for more info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webvan
An interesting observation is this might be quite good for the corporate offices to fill their kitchens as most of the amazon stuff is cheaper in bulk. I'll let the suppliers manager know :)
Looks like Woolworths/Foodtown online in NZ does many similar strategies like Peapod on pricing of deliveries over here. They send me an email every week to encourage me to buy online - i still haven't but have recently realised that Woolworths pricing with One Card can actually match Pak n Slave a lot of the time. The shopping experience is actually really good as well - their revamped stores are so well laid out. A smart cookie there thats for sure.
heres the full deal on the Amazon grocery deal.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/24/technology/24ecom.html
BTW New York Times Tech section is going on my favourites list. Bloody amazing articles.
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