Nutek

Yeah.. I don't think I would be looking to Amazon for groceries if price was a major factor for me.

That said, I wouldn't look to Wholefoods for that reason either, so I guess it doesn't make much difference.

Boomhauer

How much profit did Amazon make last quarter from their retail business only?

I know they finally turned a profit last year but it was paltry compared to the likes of Google.

Bob

They've been experimenting with a few test stores that don't have tills. Automatically add/removes items from your amazon cart as you put them in/out of your shopping cart in the store. They've been working on the tech in town.

Would work quite nicely for packaged lunch/dinner foods, bit more of a hassle for fresh bulk items though.

The biggest Amazon news was the quietly killing of the unlimited cloud storage. $60 was a bargain. $20 for 100GB of data a year and images aren't counted, so I switched to that as my redundant backup and it's still not bad value but a little annoying that it was done fairly quietly.

Giantaxe

Stock market still doesn't seem to mind - current share price is $1,001.