Amazon to close all of its Fresh grocery stores in UK
People pass through an Amazon Fresh store on August 26, 2021 on the Washington DC.
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Amazon The last re -calibration of the grocery strategy plans to close all its new supermarkets in the UK.
The company said Tuesday blog “Following a comprehensive assessment of business operations and very important growth opportunities in online delivery” is preparing to close all the new UK stores. Amazon is expected to be transformed into Whole Foods stores.
Amazon, Los Angeles’ Woodland Hills district of the store about a year after releasing the store concept in 2021 in London’s first new place in London. Fresh stores offer cheaper prices and more mass market products compared to Whole Foods, and Amazon was purchased for $ 13.7 billion in 2017. Most of the stores have Amazon’s “Just Out” technology without cashier.
The withdrawal of the new store in the UK comes because Amazon continues to adjust the grocery ambitions. The company slowed down the expansion of the new grocery chain and went to cashier -free stores in the USA. Mini “Daily Shop” Whole Foods stores in New York.
At the same time, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy And other company managers, canned products, paper towels, dish soap and snacks, such as elements such as online grocery business “daily basic” sales have revealed 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.
The company also said on Tuesday that it plans to offer grocery store on the same day, including degradable products in the UK next year.
