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Monday, June 19, 2006

Amazon To Sell Groceries?

Slashdot.org is reporting that Amazon is set to launch an online grocery store. I guess electronics and jewellery aren’t enough. Oh, wait, I think they sell books too.

According to the Slashdot article Amazon is only planning on selling nonperishables like peanut butter, potato chips and canned soup--things that could be accommodated on existing warehouse shelves.

The story is open for discussion at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=06/06/18/1517244