Titre: Amazon launches online grocery in Canada
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Description: Join FCPC January 16 to gain insights into e-commerce and what it means for your businesses.
Attention:
• CEOs, ORs
• Executives responsible for communications, sales and supply chain
Summary of Issue:
• E-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc. has launched online grocery in Canada, adding to an array of category additions this year that has included toys, beauty and home goods.
• Amazon.ca has more than doubled its offerings in Canada this year, with 14 new kinds of products and will offer 15,000 non-refrigerated food products
• In comparison, Walmart Canada has 2,000 food products on its e-commerce site, with 1,000 items added monthly since the site launched in late September.
• At an FCPC Trade Talks Breakfast earlier this month Walmart spoke to FCPC members about the steps they are taking toward becoming the number one e-tailer in Canada.
• In Canada, about 4 per cent – about $19-billion – of retail sales are made on the Internet, compared with twice that proportion south of the border.
• Online grocery sales account for even less, just a fraction of 1 per cent, although it’s expected to jump tenfold by 2025, according to consultancy Booz & Co.
Next steps
• FCPC will continue monitoring the progress of these changes and will keep members updated.
• FCPC is scoping out a white paper on the growing influence of e-commerce in our industry.
• On January 16 FCPC will be hosting an event on what manufacturers need to know in the rapidly changing world of e-commerce.
FCPC Contact:
Derek Nighbor
Senior Vice President
416-510-1163
derekn@fcpc.ca
www.fcpc.ca
Date: 2014-01-16
