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Behind the Numbers: Reimagining Retail

Reimagining Retail: What’s Next for Amazon Fresh and Lessons on How Best to Compete with Walmart | Oct 11, 2023

Oct 11, 2023
Discussion on challenges faced by Amazon Fresh and strategies for success in grocery retailing. Ranking other players offering lessons on how Amazon Fresh could compete with Walmart.
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Quick takeaways

  • Amazon Fresh struggles with establishing a compelling brick-and-mortar grocery experience due to high costs and poor store selection.
  • Amazon Fresh needs to focus on resonating store formats, customer convenience, and competitive pricing to compete with Walmart.

Deep dives

Amazon's Brick-and-Mortar Journey

Amazon's first physical retail store, Amazon Books, opened in Seattle in 2015 showcasing a unique approach to stocking books using data from Amazon.com. The initial brick-and-mortar locations were more for ordering and package pickups. Despite Amazon's shift towards brick-and-mortar retail, they had to close these stores, repurposing one as a showroom for Rivian, an electric vehicle company.

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