Amazon Coming To Stores

fmdog44

fmdog44

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I was just griping to myself today about all the stores removing vendor products and stocking their own subpar products in the their place then I saw this:
  • Amazon has unveiled Aplenty, a new private label food brand set to eventually include hundreds of products across a variety of center store categories, the retailer said in an email Monday morning.
  • The brand, which is available online and at Amazon's Fresh grocery stores, launched with items including twice-baked parmesan, garlic and herbs pita chips; slow-baked cornbread crackers; and salted caramel chip mini cookies.
  • Amazon is expanding its lineup of house brands amid a deepening focus by food retailers on private label products, which promise larger profit margins than items carrying name brands.
 

This is interesting.

I thought this was already done when Amazon acquired Whole Food and their '365' brand.

But then, Whole Foods is supposed to be healthier, more organics and less junk in the ingredients.

Will the new Aplenty brand be of the palm oil type of chemically loaded junk?
 

timoc said:
Amazon has been coming to my house for 'yonks', so why would I want to go to one of their stores? :)
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I just posted earlier that I see a lot of name brand products disappearing off shelves and being replace by store brands most of which suck with low quality and no flavor. This is especially evident in the soup sections.
 
This is another area where the shopper decides. If the goods are inferior, don't buy them. The retailers soon learn to treat their customers with more respect.
Recently, I've been making a point of using the grocery stores which stock local produce. Now that we've left the EU, it's important that we support our own businesses as much as possible.
 
If Amazon want to open their own stores, then there
are plenty over here, where the original big names
collapsed and they will probably get them for small
rents, or even buy for very little.

Mike.
 
Rosemarie said:
This is another area where the shopper decides. If the goods are inferior, don't buy them. The retailers soon learn to treat their customers with more respect.
Recently, I've been making a point of using the grocery stores which stock local produce. Now that we've left the EU, it's important that we support our own businesses as much as possible.
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How do decide when the alternatives are removed from the shelves?
 

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