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Amazon adds to Aplenty grocery label

Growing product lineup built to take on national brands

Russell Redman

October 21, 2022

3 Min Read
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Amazon's Aplenty own-brand grocery portfolio made its debut in April 2021.Amazon

Amazon has expanded its 18-month-old Aplenty grocery brand with more than 100 new food items.

When introducing Aplenty in 2021, Seattle-based Amazon said it planned to add  “hundreds more Aplenty products” over the following 12 months, spanning such categories as confections, salty snacks, cookies, crackers, frozen food, condiments, sauces, seasonings, baking mixes and pantry staples.

New Aplenty items announced this week include apple pie granola clusters, caramel pumpkin spice popcorn, pumpkin spice granola, honey crisp apple cider, cinnamon bun pancake mix and truffle cheese crisps. Aplenty products are available from Amazon online and in-store at Amazon Fresh supermarkets.

Amazon Aplenty-endcap display-Amazon Fresh store_from Brick Meets Click.pngBrick Meets Click has described Aplenty as "thoughtfully designed and positioned to have its own stand-alone appeal." (Photo courtesy of Brick Meets Click)

Upcoming Aplenty products, due to roll out between Oct. 31 and Nov. 2, include holiday-focused items such as sparkling citrus punch, chocolate peppermint granola, double chocolate truffle hot chocolate and white chocolate peppermint popcorn.

Aplenty is positioned as a premium quality brand with a wide palette of flavors and a better-for-you focus. For example, at launch, Aplenty products include twice-baked parmesan, garlic and herb pita chips; small-batch pink Himalayan sea-salt kettle-cooked potato chips; slow-baked cornbread crackers; salted caramel chip mini cookies; and honey Dijon mustard made with stoneground mustard seed and real honey.

Related:Amazon Fresh debuts new plant-based product line

According to Amazon, the brand is “developed to the highest standards, with recipes rooted in quality ingredients” and use no artificial flavors, synthetic colors or high-fructose corn syrup. The retailer noted that Aplenty products also are “rigorously taste-tested to exceed our customers’ expectations” and backed up with a “Delicious Guarantee,” in which customers can get a refund of the purchase price if not satisfied.

“This private label isn’t designed as a flanker to advertised brands; it’s a competitor to them,” strategic advisory firm Brick Meets Click wrote in an analysis of Aplenty upon the brand’s launch. “This more aggressive posture looks like it has been prompted by the growth of the Amazon Fresh e-comm platform and the rapid proliferation of Amazon Fresh stores, both of which are designed to convert occasional grocery buyers from Amazon.com into regular grocery shoppers at Amazon Fresh.”

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Aplenty products slated to roll out in the next couple of weeks feature a holiday twist.

Overall, Amazon now operates 44 Amazon Fresh grocery stores, including 18 in California; nine in Illinois; five each in Virginia and Washington state; two apiece in Maryland and in Pennsylvania; and one apiece in New Jersey, New York and the District of Columbia.

Related:Amazon expands own-brand grocery lineup with Aplenty

Barrington, Ill.-based Brick Meets Click described Aplenty as “thoughtfully designed and positioned to have its own stand-alone appeal” but noted that the label isn’t meant to replace all the flavors and sizes of comparable items from advertised brands. The likelier objective, Brick Meets Click said, is to focus Aplenty on top selling SKUs, the 20% of items that generate 80% of sales.

“We expect that Aplenty will be more of a disruptor, ultimately shifting sales from advertised brands to this new alternative as it drives Amazon’s growth in sales and gross profit,” according to Brick Meets Click. “Assuming Amazon’s disruptive private-label is strategy is successful, then the advertised brands affected will need to revisit their focus on growing through line extensions and uncover other ways to offset their lost sales.”

Industry observers say Amazon has assembled a potent private-label grocery portfolio and that’s building market share. Brands include Happy Belly (dairy, eggs, beverages, cooking and baking products, deli items, produce, snack foods and jams, jellies and spreads), Solimo (food, beverages, household, personal/beauty care, pet care), Wag (pet food), Sugarly Sweet (sweeteners), Santa Ninfa (pasta, oil, vinegar), Wickedly Prime (food, grocery), Presto! (household) and AmazonBasics (household and home essentials), Cinque Terre (pasta), Kalista (olive oil), Le French Pantry (seasonings), Mix-A-Licious (candy), Nature’s Instincts (dietary supplements), Powers & Powers (seasonings), Roast Ridge Coffee Roasters (coffee), Simply Sweet (cookies), Super Organics (coffee and tea) and Zesty Bee (honey).

About the Author

Russell Redman

Senior Editor
Supermarket News

Russell Redman has served as senior editor at Supermarket News since April 2018, his second tour with the publication. In his current role, he handles daily news coverage for the SN website and contributes news and features for the print magazine, as well as participates in special projects, podcasts and webinars and attends industry events. Russ joined SN from Racher Press Inc.’s Chain Drug Review and Mass Market Retailers magazines, where he served as desk/online editor for more than nine years, covering the food/drug/mass retail sector. 

Russell Redman’s more than 30 years of experience in journalism span a range of editorial manager, editor, reporter/writer and digital roles at a variety of publications and websites covering a breadth of industries, including retailing, pharmacy/health care, IT, digital home, financial technology, financial services, real estate/commercial property, pro audio/video and film. He started his career in 1989 as a local news reporter and editor, covering community news and politics in Long Island, N.Y. His background also includes an earlier stint at Supermarket News as center store editor and then financial editor in the mid-1990s. Russ holds a B.A. in journalism (minor in political science) from Hofstra University, where he also earned a certificate in digital/social media marketing in November 2016.

Russell Redman’s experience:

Supermarket News - Informa
Senior Editor 
April 2018 - present

Chain Drug Review/Mass Market Retailers - Racher Press
Desk/Online Editor 
Sept. 2008 - March 2018

CRN magazine - CMP Media
Managing Editor
May 2000 - June 2007

Bank Systems & Technology - Miller Freeman
Executive Editor/Managing Editor
Dec. 1996 - May 2000

Supermarket News - Fairchild Publications
Financial Editor/Associate Editor
April 1995 - Dec. 1996 

Shopping Centers Today Magazine - ICSC 
Desk Editor/Assistant Editor
Dec. 1992 - April 1995

Testa Communications
Assistant Editor/Contributing Editor (Music & Sound Retailer, Post, Producer, Sound & Communications and DJ Times magazines)
Jan. 1991 - Dec. 1992 

American Banker/Bond Buyer
Copy Editor
Oct. 1990 - Jan. 1991 

This Week newspaper - Chanry Communications
Reporter/Editor
May 1989 - July 1990

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