Teacher:In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
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 Amazon is now selling meal kits that would look familiar to Blue Apron customers — and they're already selling out. 
  
 On Tuesday, Amazon began selling kits that contain all the ingredients necessary to cook a selection of meals, including options such as stir fry, burgers, and tacos. Meals — which contain enough ingredients to prepare meals for two to four people — cost between $19.99 and $38. 
  
 By 9 am ET on Tuesday, five of the 19 single-meal "Amazon Fresh" options, sold by Amazon but produced by other brands, had sold out. 
  
 Amazon Fresh 
  
 Amazon is selling brands including Tyson Tastemakers, created by the meat industry giant, and Martha & Marley Spoon, a collaboration between Martha Stewart and meal kit company Marley Spoon. The ecommerce giant is also selling its own brand of meal kits, only available to certain Prime customers. 
  
 Amazon Fresh bears a clear resemblance to Blue Apron and other meal kit delivery services. When news broke earlier in July that Amazon had filed a patent for "prepared food kits," Blue Apron's stock plummeted, sinking 11%. 
  
 Unlike many meal kit services, Amazon Fresh meal kits do not require customers to subscribe to a service. Blue Apron, for example, requires customers to sign up for a two or four-person subscription plan to receive ingredients to cook three meals a week. 
  
 Yakisoba Noodle Stir Fry, one of the Tyson Tastemakers meal kits Amazon Fresh 
  
 While Amazon only launched its Amazon Fresh meal kit service on Tuesday, many of the kits have been available for some time. Kits produced in partnership with Tyson, for example, have been available for purchase on Amazon since last year. 
  
 "I've tried Hello Fresh, Blue Apron, and another food service that was forgettable enough that I don't remember what the name is. I was only ever wowed by maybe a handful of those meals," one Amazon user wrote in a five-star review of Tyson's Yakisoba Noodle Stir Fry. "This dish was REALLY good and pleased my picky 10 year old son as well! I will buy this again and again!" 
  
 Not everyone was as impressed. 
  
 "Easy to make but in my opinion, the dish was way, way too salty. And frankly I think it's a little overpriced for what it is," reads one two-star review for the same Tyson stir fry. "There was a smell in my fridge for a couple of days and I think it was either the sauce for the meat? Not quite sure but smell is gone now that the box was removed." ||||| Blue Apron shares dropped sharply Monday morning, accelerating the slide since their debut amid fresh signs of competition from Amazon. 
  
 The e-commerce giant has registered a trademark in the U.S. for a service described as: "We do the prep. You be the chef," according to a filing previously uncovered by The Sunday Times, based in the U.K. 
  
 Blue Apron shares hit an all-time intraday low of $6.45 a share, according to FactSet, and the stock was last down more than 10 percent. 
  
 Blue Apron, a meal-kit delivery service backed by major investors including Fidelity, Bessemer Venture Partners and First Round Capital, has seen shares fall after hitting the public market in late June. The stock has shed nearly 30 percent month to date. 
  
 The public market may be struggling to match the high valuation that Blue Apron saw in the private market, given that the company is losing money, Kathleen Smith, principal at Renaissance Capital, a manager of IPO-focused ETFs, told CNBC earlier this month. 
  
 The unicorn start-up was valued around $2 billion in the private market, according to CB Insights estimates. But the company has posted steeper net losses each year since 2014, according to regulatory filings. ||||| Blue Apron is having a rotten summer. 
  
 The New York-based company on June 28 became the first US meal-kit service to go public. Such an event would normally be seen as a moment of strength for any company—except when, not even a month later, news breaks that Amazon is shoehorning its way into the same space. 
  
 As Blue Apron attempts to rev-up funding for an expansion, Amazon is reportedly already selling its meal kits to a handful of people who subscribe to Amazon Prime, the internet juggernaut’s service that clusters all sorts of benefits into one place. 
  
 One of Amazon’s 17 available kits includes steak au poivre with parmesan fries and snap peas. In an interview with GeekWire, one Prime user gave his Amazon meal kit a glowing review, noting that his peas were fresh and the steak was substantial. The price of each kit (which serves two) is comparable to Blue Apron: $16-$20 each. 
  
 Amazon’s meal kit is such a huge threat to Blue Apron because it’s wrapped into Amazon Prime. According to a 2016 report by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners, a huge swath of US households subscribe to Prime; consumers will have easy access to the meal-kit service, which gives Amazon a big leg up on Blue Apron from the get-go. 
  
 Much of Blue Apron’s revenue evaporates because of marketing costs. Amazon won’t have to face that sort of uphill battle, especially if it gives its new service good billing online. 
  
 This latest venture by Amazon is yet another indication that its future plans are very much hinged on getting more into food. Already it has the US grocery industry on edge after purchasing Whole Foods Market for $13.7 billion in late June. |||||
Student:
Fresh off putting a scare into grocery stores with news it was attempting to acquire Whole Foods, Amazon is now doing the same in the meal-kit delivery sector. Quartz reports Blue Apron went public June 28—the first meal-kit company to do so. Less than a month later, it appears on the verge of being crushed by Amazon. The online behemoth started selling its own delivered meal kits Tuesday and had already sold out five of the 19 options by Tuesday morning, according to Business Insider. Amazon is selling other brands of meal kits through Amazon Fresh and its own brand of meal kits to Amazon Prime subscribers. With Amazon pushing into its territory—first revealed through Amazon registering a trademark for "We do the prep. You be the chef"—Blue Apron stock hit an all-time low Monday, CNBC reports. An expert says that while Blue Apron had a "neat concept," it won't be able to compete at the same level as Amazon "to be successful long term." Blue Apron requires a subscription, but anyone can get meal kits through Amazon Fresh. And for those that want the Amazon-brand kits, there are already more than 80 million Prime members in the US. Meanwhile, Blue Apron has to dedicate much of its revenue toward marketing, which isn't a concern for Amazon.