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title: "MONEY: Amazon Wants to Be Your Grocery Store Too"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/8d61354b-0503-43c5-8ab0-e8cd3265f0ee
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/money-amazon-wants-to-be-your-grocery-store-too-7052
category: "Grocery"
industry: "Retail"
segment: "Grocery"
published: 2016-10-28T16:11:14.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T02:33:22.616Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/491057c82ac4b4b8ad4160bed1009455211.jpg
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# MONEY: Amazon Wants to Be Your Grocery Store Too

**TL;DR:** Amazon is expanding its brick-and-mortar presence with 20 physical grocery store locations within two years and 2,000 stores over a decade. The company plans to open more bookstores, adding to its competition with Walmart for dominance in the shopping space.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2016-10-28. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/money-amazon-wants-to-be-your-grocery-store-too-7052).*

## Story

Although Amazon already dominates the online shopping world, they are ready to take on brick-and-mortar shopping as well. According to a recent MONEY article, the Seattle-based e-commerce platform will be opening 20 physical grocery store locations within two years and 2,000 grocery stores over a decade.

Amazon grocery stores will have two options for shoppers that come to the new physical locations. Whether you like to shop traditionally in store, or pick up your order in store once placed through AmazonFresh, the new “click-and-collect” model will available to customers.

It’s not the brand’s first time having physical stores. In fact, Amazon already has opened physical stores in Portland, San Diego, and Seattle that are physical bookstores. The company plans to open more bookstores, according to founder Jeff Bezos, which will only add to the fight against Walmart for dominance in the shopping space.

Amazon has sold six times the amount as the following retailers combined together, while Walmart’s online reach doesn’t’ come close to comparing to Amazon’s.

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Retail (sector)
- Amazon (company)
- Walmart (company)
- online shopping (topic)
- Jeff Bezos (person)
- grocery stores (topic)
- brick-and-mortar expansion (topic)
- competition with walmart (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/money-amazon-wants-to-be-your-grocery-store-too-7052). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/8d61354b-0503-43c5-8ab0-e8cd3265f0ee).