ADADFor the next several weeks, the store will serve only a select group of customers invited by Amazon. Amazon also is responding to heightened demand for groceries during the pandemic, as Americans spend much more time at home. But the Fresh store will differ from the smaller grab-and-go markets. Fresh stores will have a wide array of national food brands in addition to meat, produce, seafood and prepared foods made on location daily. “Obviously, they thought that building something from scratch would be better than to try to retrofit a Whole Foods store, which is what it looks like they are doing here,” said Sucharita Kodali, a retail analyst at Forrester Research.

Source: Washington Post August 27, 2020 13:51 UTC