Only the ones with high overhead.
Even with my current situation of just buying dry goods through walmart online, I find I get them at insanely better prices through online purchase than I would locally. Hell, I only experience two concerns. One, being home to receive the shipment and storage which was easily solved with plastic containers and an aluminum shelf. The other being that what I saved meant I could more easily redirect those funds to buy higher value and more fresh food items. So while it means my local supermarket doesn't get me buying flour, sugar, rice, cereals, or ANY dry goods, I buy more better quality fresh foods like meat, cheese, eggs, and dairy.
If I ran a supermarket facing Amazon entering the fray, I'd be working to appeal more to male consumers and really pushing my store brand/generic goods.
I'm very happy shopping at Save-A-Lot and Walmart, occasionally Aldis. Idk what Amazon could do to convince me to go elsewhere.
That's interesting buying dry goods online. I'm not sure I go through them fast enough for it to make much difference for me.
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