Minibar Looks to Fill Amazon Wine Void

Amazon recently announced it will be shuttering its wine marketplace by the end of the year, leaving an estimated $120 million hole in the direct-to-consumer wine market [see WSD 10-27-2017]. Now other players are moving in to take its place before it inevitably figures out a way to sell wine online via its Whole Foods subsidiary."Certainly Amazon will be missed because it was that great clearing house," Alex Koral, industry relations advisor for Sovos Compliance software tells WSD, but there