Experts: AmazonFresh Houston Expansion Good For Consumers

HOUSTON, TX -- Amazon is expanding its food delivery service in Houston, and experts say it will be good for competition and consumers, according to Houston Public Media.

AmazonFresh, which delivers groceries to consumers for a fee, is already in service in many large cities in the U.S. and around the world. In the past several years, AmazonFresh has begun operations in Los Angeles, San Fransisco, New York City, Philadelphia, Balitmore and more in the U.S. as well as Tokyo and Berlin.

The company plans to occupy a 100,000 square-foot warehouse in the Fallbrook Pines Business Park, the Houston Business Journal reported.

Utpal Dholakia, a marketing professor at Rice University, told Houston Public Media that “Houston is finally going to get the level of service that people in other big cities are already getting from Amazon.”

Dholakia told Houston Public Media the expansion is good for consumers because "we really want companies fighting with each other for our business... that's what really makes them interested in serving us really well and providing us products that are good price and so on."

Amazon has been expanding in the Houston area as of late. The recent opening of a fulfillment center in Katy provides 1,000 full-time jobs, the company said in a press release.

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