One of the world's biggest retailers, Amazon, is on track to launch bricks and mortar grocery stores and an online supermarket in Australia within two years.

An Amazon supermarket would be different to a typical Australian supermarket, if it is built as once advocated by an executive supporting Amazon's grocery rollout globally, Brittain Ladd.

Jeff Bezos is one of the world's richest people. His Amazon empire is about to take on Australian supermarkets Credit:Bloomberg

It would be smaller than a Woolworths or Coles; similar in size to an Aldi store.

It would stock only the items people like to inspect before purchasing, namely fruit and vegetables, meat, dairy and alcohol.