Amazon Fresh is webvan redux

I'm impressed with Amazon. I think they're doing a lot of cool stuff and are a very cool business. I like Jeff Bezos a lot and think he's a very smart CEO. This Amazon Fresh concept is an interesting play that capitalizes on Amazons core strengths: A strong consumer brand with excellent high volume logistics for e-commerce. If successful, this business could be huge. In their day, HomeGrocer and Webvan were on on the verge of making this direct delivery of groceries a huge business. I actually think Amazon may figure out how to make this work. I'll have to log on and try it out as a consumer. You can also read about it here on Techcrunch.

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[RobertinSeattle]

If you ever had the opportunity to hear Terry Drayton from HomeGrocer.com speak about WebVan's acquisition of their company, you'd sure hope that Amazon's grocery model is closer to HomeGrocer than it is to WebVan!