Online Grocery Growth Tests US Retail Agility

Online grocery is here and poised for steady growth in the next decade with Amazon expected to lead the charge.

Multiple surveys reveal that 11% of consumers are already buying groceries online. A study by Brick Meets Click found more than 10% of the 22,000 shoppers recently interviewed had made a grocery purchase online in the last 30 days.

A white paper by Kantar Research last year, noted that 11% of shoppers had purchased grocery items online in the past 90 days. Of that, 56% purchased those groceries from Amazon and that was prior to the launch of Amazon Prime Fresh. Anne Zybowski, a retail analyst with Kantar Retail, notes that Amazon has set the competitive bar for the grocery industry.

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