Amazon shuts 4 Fresh stores in Southern California after UK closures
On December 12, 2024, an employee organized a salad sauce show at the Amazon Fresh market in Washington, Federal Way.
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Amazon The e-commerce giant continues to focus on the grocery strategy on Whole Foods and Delivery, while closing four more fresh supermarkets in Southern California.
Closes will take place in the coming weeks, Amazon confirmed to CNBC. Washington, Virginia, New York and Los Angeles are following the closure of four other US locations in recent months.
“Some places work better than others and after an assessment, we decided to close their fresh places,” Amazon spokesman Griffin said. He said. “We are working closely with affected employees to help them find new roles in Amazon wherever possible.”
According to an internal message displayed by CNBC, employees in a new supermarket in La Verne, California, were told to gather for a meeting on Wednesday. At the meeting, they learned that the store would be closed in mid -November and that the employees would receive a severance pay package according to a person who wanted the details not to be named because the details were hidden.
The other three stores in the closing Mission Viejo, La Habra and Whittier.
Last week, Amazon said it plans to close 14 fresh markets in the UK and turn five places there into Whole Foods markets.
Amazon said that he regularly evaluated the store portfolio that can lead to opening, reopening, displacement or closure of certain places. The company has more than 60 fresh stores in the USA. Last year, the company has removed the cashier technology from the stores “just go out”. It also eliminates the footprint of the cashier -free markets.
Amazon has been determined to be a big grocery store for about twenty years. The company launched Amazon Fresh in 2007, and then a pilot project for a new food distribution broke a record before receiving a luxury chain Whole Foods for 13.7 billion dollars in 2017.
In 2020, Amazon launched the new grocery chain by taking a look at mass market shopping. The presentation has been turbulent since its early days.
The company opened up to new places until 2022, but its expansion plans took into consideration CEO Andy Jassy’s increasing interest rates and the effect of rising inflation. In 2023, Amazon announced that he would turn off some fresh stores and evaluate how the chain would stand out for shoppers.
Buch, while closing fresh stores Amazon, “Grocery shopping easier, faster and more affordable to invest in investing and investing,” he said. The company still maintains 500 Whole Foods location and opened Mini “Daily Shop” Whole Foods stores in New York.
On Wednesday, Amazon also launched a new grocery brand with a new “price consciousness” to be presented in online and physical stores. And last month, Amazon expanded its fresh food delivery to the US more on the same day.
Jassy and other company executives, canned products, paper towels, dish soap and snacks, such as elements such as online grocery business “daily principles” sales have demonstrated the success of sales. Jassy said in May that the company remained “ascension” at the grocery store to investors at the annual shareholder meeting and called it “an important business” for the Amazon.
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