{"id":14424,"date":"2023-08-24T15:02:18","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T19:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/?p=14424"},"modified":"2023-08-29T20:55:51","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T00:55:51","slug":"stores-still-matter-wheres-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/2023\/08\/24\/stores-still-matter-wheres-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Stores Still Matter. Where\u2019s Amazon?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>People are eager to return to grocery stores, but Amazon seems to be missing the opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nearly four years after Amazon agreed to a huge&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/16\/business\/dealbook\/amazon-whole-foods.html\">deal to buy Whole Foods<\/a>&nbsp;and a year into a pandemic that played into the tech giant\u2019s strengths, it\u2019s worth asking two questions: Is Amazon losing in groceries? And why has one of the world\u2019s most ambitious and inventive companies&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/16\/technology\/amazon-master-plan.html\">mostly been a follower rather than a leader<\/a>&nbsp;in one of the biggest spending categories for Americans?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What Amazon does in groceries matters to all Americans, even if we never buy milk and bananas from the company. Consumers and Amazon\u2019s competitors consider it to be at the cutting edge of innovation. But that\u2019s not the case in groceries \u2014 at least not yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>I find thins interesting because I would never have thought to by things like produce from Amazon especially at the time of this article, I only would consider it it after seeing things like Amazon fresh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ovide, S. (2021, May 4).\u00a0<em>Stores still matter. where\u2019s Amazon?<\/em>\u00a0The New York Times. https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/05\/04\/technology\/amazon-grocery-shopping.html\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-the-new-york-times wp-block-embed-the-new-york-times\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Stores Still Matter. Where\u2019s Amazon?\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2021%2F05%2F04%2Ftechnology%2Famazon-grocery-shopping.html#?secret=6EyL0OQCav\" data-secret=\"6EyL0OQCav\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People are eager to return to grocery stores, but Amazon seems to be missing the opportunity. Nearly four years after Amazon agreed to a huge&nbsp;deal to buy Whole Foods&nbsp;and a year into a pandemic that played into the tech giant\u2019s strengths, it\u2019s worth asking two questions: Is Amazon losing in groceries? And why has one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":14435,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-focus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14424"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14681,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14424\/revisions\/14681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}