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Amazon to Launch Online Grocery Store

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bad-acid-flashbacks dept.

Aryabhata writes "It might sound like a bad flashback to the dot-com days, but news is that Amazon is planning to test the waters with an old idea; the online grocery store!. To its defense Amazon is only attempting this with nonperishables like peanut butter, potato chips, and canned soup implying that there's no refrigeration required--ordinary warehouse shelves will do fine."

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  1. Not That Different by Distinguished+Hero · · Score: 5, Funny

    To its defense Amazon is only attempting this with nonperishables like peanut butter, potato chips, and canned soup implying that there's no refrigeration required--ordinary warehouse shelves will do fine."
    Well, in that case, it isn't different from what Amazon was doing before hand, now is it? Amazon to Sell Stuff Online, Film at 11.

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  2. gentlemen, start your engines... by Zaphod2016 · · Score: 4, Funny

    If online grocery shopping gives you flashbacks to failed experiments like Webvan, you are not alone.

    In fact, here they come now...

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  3. Next frivolous patent... by demongeek · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ways to dispose of hundreds of thousands of dollars of junk food left over from the cafeteria....

  4. If only... by brian0918 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now, if only they could find a way to get the food through the computer, and stuff it right into my face, I wouldn't have to do all that damn walking...

    1. Re:If only... by Skater · · Score: 4, Funny

      Isn't that what FTP is for? The Food Transfer Protocol?

  5. Re:since no perishables by smileyy · · Score: 3, Funny

    I doubt Amazon has the shipping volume to garner such deals.

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  6. Re: Does that market fit into their portfolio? by gidds · · Score: 5, Funny
    Oh, I dunno.

    When was the last time you watched The Buns of Navarone, listened to Give Peas A Chance, read The Da Vinco Cod, or saw Bring Me the Bread of Alfredo Garcia?

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  7. Correlation between Reading habits & Eating ha by WinEveryGame · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hmm.. I wonder what they will deduce from correlating my reading habits with my eating habits.

  8. Perishables??? by Wellington+Grey · · Score: 1, Funny

    Amazon is only attempting this with nonperishables like peanut butter, potato chips, and canned soup

    What other kind of food is there? I know not of this 'perishable' food.

    -Grey

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  9. Re:a terrible idea by cpsc2005 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Also, who really wants used peanut butter? I don't want my food in the condition of "Used - Good."

    Harry Potter reference link (Sorry, it was the first thing that popped into my head for which to search)

  10. No Mountain Dew by DavidD_CA · · Score: 2, Funny

    We should all boycott this new venture. They do not sell Mountain Dew!

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  11. Re:So? by Pink+Tinkletini · · Score: 2, Funny

    I just had to add this little gem from New York magazine, courtesy Wikipedia:

    The FreshDirect posters blaring that the company was BROUGHT TO YOU BY A CO-FOUNDER OF FAIRWAY UPTOWN and featuring a photo of Fedele made [Fairway owner Howie] Glickberg furious. He posted signs inside the 74th Street store reading FAIRWAY IS IN NO WAY AFFILIATED WITH FRESHDIRECT. FreshDirect jabbed back by sending staffers dressed as giant fruits and vegetables to pass out flyers in front of Fairway. Then the FreshDirect Website added a lengthy description of Fedele's role in the uptown Fairway, headlined: HEY FAIRWAY, WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? Fairway threatened to sue.

    Yeah! New York!

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  12. Does anyone know if.. by Frightening · · Score: 2, Funny

    you could post reviews for your groceries? Because if yes, we can and will annihilate the TV dinner business.

  13. Used & New by pajamacore · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm okay with this idea so long as there isn't a Used & New grocery section, like for the other items they sell.

  14. Re:Difference between Amazon & Safeway by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 1, Funny

    That's not a bug, it's a feature. Amazon is merely saving me the trouble of wiping my ass with my hand and then touching my food. Currently, I spend a significant chunk of each day doing that.

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  15. Re:Does that market fit into their portfolio? by enitime · · Score: 2, Funny
    Added to shopping cart: William S. Burroughs - The Naked Lunch.


    People who bought this also bought:

    • Hot Teens Gone Wild VII
    • Egg-white omelet with spring onions.
  16. Re:Difference between Amazon & Safeway by Darkman,+Walkin+Dude · · Score: 2, Funny

    wear gloves when you shop and wipe everything down with Vodka before you take them off.

    Funny, my last girlfriend said the same thing to me...

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