AmazonFresh is a subsidiary of the Amazon.com

Amazon.com

Amazon.com, Inc. is a multinational electronic commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world's largest online retailer. Amazon has separate websites for the following countries: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, and...

 American e-commerce company in Seattle, Washington

Seattle, Washington

Seattle is the county seat of King County, Washington. With 608,660 residents as of the 2010 Census, Seattle is the largest city in the Northwestern United States. The Seattle metropolitan area of about 3.4 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the country...

. It is reviving the business model of ordering groceries online for home delivery first popularized by such companies as HomeGrocer.com

HomeGrocer

HomeGrocer.com, Inc. was one of the first online supermarket businesses, started in 1997. It was founded by Terry Drayton. Buoyed by investments from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Amazon.com, John Malone of Liberty Media, Martha Stewart and Jim Barksdale, HomeGrocer.com built and operated the...

 and Webvan

Webvan

Webvan was an online "credit and delivery" grocery business that went bankrupt in 2001. It was headquartered in Foster City, California, USA, near Silicon Valley. It delivered products to customers' homes within a 30-minute window of their choosing. At its peak, it offered service in ten U.S...

 in the late '90s.

History and business model

AmazonFresh initially offered home grocery delivery to residents of the Seattle suburb of Mercer Island

Mercer Island, Washington

Mercer Island is a city in King County, Washington, United States and the name of the island in Lake Washington on which the city sits. The population was 22,699 at the 2010 census....

 in an invitation-only beta-test beginning in August 2007. It has since expanded out to a number of Seattle-area zip codes, including the suburbs of Kirkland

Kirkland, Washington

Kirkland is a city in King County, Washington, United States. It is a suburb of Seattle on the Eastside . The population was 48,787 at the 2010 census makes it the 9th largest city in King County and the 20th largest city in the state...

 and Bellevue

Bellevue, Washington

Bellevue is a city in the Eastside region of King County, Washington, United States, across Lake Washington from Seattle. Long known as a suburb or satellite city of Seattle, it is now categorized as an edge city or a boomburb. The population was 122,363 at the 2010 census.Downtown Bellevue is...

.

Product lines

AmazonFresh offers grocery items for sale, as well as a subset of items from the main Amazon.com storefront. Items ordered through AmazonFresh are available for home delivery on the same day or the next day, depending on the time of the order, and the availability of trucks. Examples of grocery items for sale are wine, pumpkin pie, and pre-cooked turkeys.

See also

• FreshDirect
  FreshDirect
  right|thumb|Fresh Direct logo FreshDirect is an online grocer that delivers to residences and offices in the New York City metropolitan area. FreshDirect also offers next-day delivery to most of Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, Staten Island, Nassau County, Westchester County, ...
  
  
• Gopher Grocery
  Gopher Grocery
  Gopher Grocery is an online grocer serving the Twin Cities Metropolitan area of Minnesota. It was founded in December of 2005 by William Orkin. It was based on the belief that grocery delivery does not have to be expensive, with its key selling points being a $2 delivery fee and low prices that...
  
  
• Grocery Gateway
  Grocery Gateway
  Grocery Gateway is a grocery delivery service based in Malton, Ontario and serves the entire Greater Toronto Area .Grocery Gateway was the brainchild of Toronto entrepreneur Bill Di Nardo, who along with co-founders Scott Bryan, Stephen Tallevi, Tomas Berinstein, Ben Jones, and Alan Lamb, started...
  
  
• HomeGrocer
  HomeGrocer
  HomeGrocer.com, Inc. was one of the first online supermarket businesses, started in 1997. It was founded by Terry Drayton. Buoyed by investments from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Amazon.com, John Malone of Liberty Media, Martha Stewart and Jim Barksdale, HomeGrocer.com built and operated the...
  
  
• HyVee
• Peapod
  Peapod
  Peapod, LLC is an online grocery delivery service owned by Royal Ahold and operating only in a select number of US cities. The company is based in Skokie, Illinois."." Peapod. Retrieved on February 15, 2011. "Corporate Headquarters 9933 Woods Drive, Skokie, IL 60077 ."-History:Peapod was founded in...
  
  
• Pink Dot
  Pink Dot
  Pink Dot is a Los Angeles–based chain of grocery stores that is known for delivering items such as groceries, deli food, cigarettes, and alcohol. The store is open 365 days a year...
  
  
• Publix Direct
• RelayFoods.com
  RelayFoods.com
  Retail Relay, Inc., branded RelayFoods.com since 2010, is a privately held American online grocery service operating in select US cities. The company is headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia.- History :...
  
  
• SimonDelivers
  SimonDelivers
  SimonDelivers, Inc. was an online grocery that primarily served the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area of Minnesota, Rochester, Forest Lake, New Prague, Belle Plaine and Jordan, MN and western Wisconsin cities such as Hudson, New Richmond and River Falls...
  
  
• ShopRite (United States)
  ShopRite (United States)
  ShopRite Supermarkets is a retailers' cooperative chain of supermarkets in the northeastern United States, with stores in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, and Pennsylvania...
  
  
• Webvan
  Webvan
  Webvan was an online "credit and delivery" grocery business that went bankrupt in 2001. It was headquartered in Foster City, California, USA, near Silicon Valley. It delivered products to customers' homes within a 30-minute window of their choosing. At its peak, it offered service in ten U.S...
  
  
• Winder Farms
  Winder Farms
  Winder Farms, headquartered in West Valley City, Utah, is an online grocer providing dairy and other grocery products to households in Utah and Las Vegas, Nevada.-History:The business was started in 1880 by John R. Winder...
  
  
• YourGrocer.com
  YourGrocer.Com
  YourGrocer.com is owned by New YourGrocer LLC, which began operations in the greater New York City area in May 2002. Marketed as "the warehouse club that delivers," YourGrocer.com aims to provide the convenience of online shopping and home delivery with the economies of buying groceries at...
  
  

External links

• AmazonFresh Website
• AmazonFresh on Twitter (official feed)