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Aug. 16, 2025 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
16:37
Local grocery stores will be CRUSHED as Amazon moves into drone-based food delivery
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Welcome.
I'm Mike Adams here with a special analysis of why food retailing is about to undergo a massive shift in logistics that's going to put a lot of grocery retailers out of business.
And this is because Amazon is moving into the online grocery retail same-day delivery space.
Now, of course, Amazon is the behemoth of retail.
They have put many other retailers out of business, and they're going to do this with a lot of grocery stores.
Here's why.
Number one, ask yourself, why do you go to the grocery store to buy groceries?
Why do you do that?
And, you know, the answer is because that's where they are.
But isn't it a pain?
Isn't it a pain to stand in line?
Isn't it a pain to wait for the cashier to go through your foods?
Isn't it a pain to unload your cart and then walk your bags out to your car, put them in your car?
You know, I mean, it's like, hey, I just wanted some avocados.
And now I got to go through all this.
And, you know, I got to look at all these other obese, diseased, cancer-ridden families with all their junk food in their carts.
Of course, that's something that gets me a little ticked off just thinking because they're all on food stamps.
So taxpayers are paying for them to be obese and diabetic and everything.
It's like, oh, God, I don't even want to see their food, you know, because it's just processed junk food.
So yeah, I mean, for me, as a health ranger, I don't like to go to the grocery store.
Now, I don't use Instacart and I don't use, I don't know, the Uber Eats or whatever those food services are, DoorDash, I think, whatever they are.
I don't use that because I don't mass order food from, you know, fast food restaurants or whatever.
But I know some people do.
And, you know, that's great.
The thing is that Amazon is the king of logistics of fulfillment.
And what Amazon is actually developing and rolling out are key technologies for this.
I mean, they've already got the software side of multi-warehousing inventory control and inventory distribution, plus predictive analysis of demand based on regions and based on holidays and based on, you know, everything, people's demographics and what they buy or what they bought in the past compared to what they're going to buy in the future and what zip code they live in, etc.
Amazon's nailed that.
They're very good at that.
Walmart is also very good at that.
But small grocery stores don't have the ability to bring in things like advanced robotics for fulfillment or things like drone deliveries, which Amazon is already starting to roll out in certain areas.
So Amazon has the ability to automate fulfillment with robots that have a hand, a hand with touch sensors on it.
That's what they're using now or that's what they're experimenting with.
And that's going to improve very rapidly.
So Amazon can automate all the picking and packing of your groceries and put it on a drone or put it on a truck or put it on a dog bot in a city or whatever.
And they can get it out to you in a few hours.
And grocery chains don't have the ability to do that.
So you take the largest grocery chain in Texas, I think, is HEB, as it's known.
It doesn't exist in many other states, but in Texas, HEB is a big deal.
It's a big, big grocery chain, very successful.
And actually, I like HEB.
I think they do a good job overall.
But HEB is not putting in billions of dollars into robots and drones and all kinds of automation.
That's not what they're into.
Eventually, they may have some sort of humanoid robots to do restocking of shelves at night.
Surely there's going to come a day where that makes sense for them probably in the next few years.
But that's not their focus.
They're not innovating.
They're not building the robots to do that because they don't have massive fulfillment centers.
What does HEB have?
They have cashiers.
They have human cashiers that grab the food items on the conveyor belt and scan them across the Barcode laser scanner and put them in a bag.
Or actually, they don't even put them in a bag.
They just push them to the side.
So the automation advancements are going to be achieved only by the largest companies in this space.
And right now, that's Amazon, obviously.
Now, the other reason why you go to a store to buy groceries is because, well, a lot of food is perishable.
So you can't order it online and then have it shipped two to three days, you know, in transit.
The lettuce will wilt, obviously.
So it's a question of time.
And if Amazon can solve the problem, which Instacart has solved in many ways, if they can solve the problem of delivering orders within hours after they are placed, then that transit time is low enough that the food survives.
That's, I mean, actually, it's the perishability of groceries that even gives justification for a physical grocery store building that you walk into and buy the groceries right there.
If it wasn't for that factor, then everything would just be ordered online and we'll ship you the lettuce, you know?
So it's the time factor.
Well, Amazon is right on the verge of very important breakthroughs that allow it to deliver very, very rapidly.
And all of that is automated delivery.
They're doing drone delivery now, by the way, and it's not the quadcopter drones.
They don't land and drop off a package.
What they do is they fly over your yard, your backyard, typically, and then they drop your package with a sad excuse for a parachute.
It's only designed to slightly slow down the fall of the package so that the package hits the ground with a certain acceptable level of g-forces.
And so obviously, there are only certain types of products that are appropriate for that kind of delivery, products that can withstand, you know, 10 Gs of impact or whatever.
But that includes heads of lettuce.
And if you had any idea how much abuse your bananas and avocados go through, you'd be amazed.
You know, how are they even here?
But turns out a lot of fresh produce can go through a lot of abuse.
That's why they pick it when it's so hard and unripe, so that it can go through all the processing machinery and the sorting and the transportation and everything and come out intact.
That's why your pears are so hard.
It's like these are rock hard pears.
That's not the way pears are supposed to be when you eat them.
Well, anyway, Amazon's figured out this rapid distribution delivery technology through various forms of automation.
And so they're going to expand this grocery service to, I don't know, hundreds of cities across the United States.
And that's going to be a very big deal.
They're going to do tens of billions of dollars of business that way.
And of course, I'll try out their service as well.
I mean, I'm an Amazon customer.
I think most of us are one way or another.
Sometimes you need something rapidly that Amazon can deliver via Prime, etc.
I always actually try to find it somewhere else first, you know.
But I end up using Amazon for a lot of things.
Of course, I hope you agree with me that if it's nutrition or superfoods, you would shop with us first, healthrangerstore.com.
But even we don't, we don't have drone delivery.
You know, we don't have a multi-billion dollar network of transport vans to drive all over the country and deliver things to your door.
And we're never going to have that.
We just, we don't have the capital or the customer base to be that large.
So we are always going to depend on other carriers, FedEx, UPS, US Mail, et cetera, in order to deliver the products to you.
But interestingly, even some of those, like you can imagine FedEx might start using drone delivery.
They've actually made investments in the drone space.
And when you talk about rapid delivery of emergency overnight products or packages, drone delivery Can actually make a lot of sense for a carrier like FedEx.
So there's going to be pretty rapid competition in both FedEx and UPS as well as Amazon and US Mail, etc.
That's going to be happening.
You can count on it.
But back to Amazon and what they're doing.
Think about this.
If I can get, like, I buy a lot of avocados and bananas, as you probably know, and, you know, other fresh produce typically, I'm not at all a fan of processed food, but I'll buy like organic packaged cheese sometimes and things like that.
But I use avocados and bananas every day in my smoothie.
And sometimes I'll buy turmeric or onions or what have you.
Red peppers is one of my favorites.
I love red peppers.
So, of course, I'm going to use this Amazon service.
I'll try it out.
If I can just go on their website, pick a bunch of avocados, and then they stick it on a drone and they drop that avocado package in my backyard or wherever.
Obviously, I give them a fake address because I don't want them to know where I live, but they drop it at some place where I can eventually get it.
Yeah, I'm going to try that out.
And if it works, great.
But you know, that's also going to be weather dependent, too, right?
So if the wind is too high, can't fly.
If it's raining, can't fly.
Might be certain hours of the day, certain visibility requirements.
You know, if there's too much fog, can't fly.
It's pretty much like flying an airplane.
You know, certain conditions, VFR, visual flight rules.
If you don't have VFR, you don't fly.
You don't just take off in the middle of a bunch of fog unless you're instrument rated.
And these Amazon drones are going to have limitations too.
But the success of this, which is really almost inevitable, this is going to cause a lot of people to say, hey, I really, I don't want to go to the grocery store any longer.
Even on fresh produce.
And avocados are tricky to pick out because if you leave that up to somebody else, they will often, like a human picker, will pick smushy old avocados that are way too soft because they don't know what they're doing.
Or they'll pick bananas that are way too green that won't be ripe for a week, you know?
So there is that factor.
Some people like to pick their own produce.
I get it.
Some people like to go to the grocery store.
I understand that.
But it's a waste of time for most people to go to the grocery store.
It's a waste of time.
You want avocados, but you don't want to spend half an hour pushing around a dirty cart that some mom actually had her feces spilling infant seated on the top there.
And, you know, a little infant turd rolled out onto the cart a couple uses ago and you don't know.
So you're pushing around the cart.
You're handling all your fresh produce.
And then you're wondering where the E. coli comes from.
You know, it's the cart.
Okay.
It's the diapers on the baby in the cart.
That's where it comes from.
That's how you get E. coli smeared on the handles.
So that's one more great reason not to go to grocery stores.
And then there's also like pandemics and such.
We all learned during COVID that sometimes we have to be a lot more self-reliant.
And of course, store traffic plunged during COVID, but then chains like HEB, they set up these pickups, like the parking lot pickups where you order online and then they have people pick your groceries for you.
And then you drive up into a parking spot with a number and then they bring your groceries out to you.
So a lot of retailers are doing that right now.
And there's also Walmart is doing that at many of its stores as well.
There's a lot of this going on with different retailers that are having curbside pickup services for this very reason.
Now, remember that most of the food that you get from these services is not going to be healthy, fresh produce.
What Amazon and even what grocery stores prefer is processed food with long shelf life, like six months or more, obviously, that's also hard to destroy.
So you take a box of Crackers or a box of breakfast cereal, you know, you can throw that off the top of a building.
It doesn't hurt the cereal.
So, you know, you can airdrop that out of a drone, no problem.
But you're not going to get drone delivery of, let's say, watermelons because they're too heavy.
So you'll still have to go to the store to get your watermelons.
So that's going to cause some interesting shifts in consumer demand, too.
For example, there might be a market for much smaller watermelons that fit within the weight limit of drone delivery.
Otherwise, you'd have giant watermelon bombs falling out of the sky.
Splat.
Oh, look, it's a watermelon buffet on the lawn.
No, people are going to buy smaller watermelons.
It's just like, you know, a personal-sized watermelon, even a mini personal watermelon.
So you're going to see a lot of changes like that, changes in packaging, etc., because of the delivery mechanism.
So there's a lot of changes coming, obviously.
And we are going to do our best to keep up with our logistics and our infrastructure at healthrangerstore.com.
I appreciate all your support.
Remember that we're not Amazon.
We're not a bunch of globalists.
We don't have, you know, investor money.
We don't sell you a bunch of toxic crap.
We're not into that.
We bring you real nutritious foods and superfoods, nutritional supplements and personal care products that are ultra-clean, laboratory tested, and almost all of it is certified organic on top of that.
Now, we're never going to sell avocados or watermelons.
We're not competing with grocery stores.
But we are selling supplements and superfoods and personal care products and essential oils and iodine and all kinds of things like that.
So when you have a choice, shop with us first.
And if you have the patience to wait a couple of days for delivery, I thank you for that patience because we need your support in order to continue to source these products, to manufacture them, formulate them, test them.
We're building out our new laboratory.
You know, I should bring you a new video of that actually.
And we are investing in infrastructure to bring you clean foods and superfoods, but it's not going to be watermelons and avocados and heads of lettuce.
It's going to be more specialty items, high-density nutrition items.
So shop with us now, healthrangerstore.com, and then watch for Amazon to start grocery deliveries.
And we'll see what that looks like.
Heck, I'll try it out myself and see how it goes.
I've got, yeah, I've got a pretty big field right next to my studio where I could have Amazon like air bomb fresh produce.
That would be fun.
We could wait for it and film it, see how it does.
So that'd be great.
Thanks for listening.
I'm Mike Adams here at the Health Ranger.
Take care.
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