The moves come just months after Amazon announced it was shutting 68 electronics and book stores in the US and the UK, saying it was planning to focus instead on the grocery operations and its clothing store in Los Angeles. Instead, they are charged after leaving the store on their card. The US retailer has reportedly walked away from talks for dozens of potential sites for Amazon Fresh stores, after facing disappointing sales at the 19 check-out free shops it already has in the UK.Īccording to the Sunday Times, the company is no longer looking for new locations for Amazon Fresh, halting plans to open hundreds more sites, which use tracking technology to tell which items customers have picked up and allow them to leave without having to pay at a till. "We understand the internal build-out has been delayed but we are not sure why," City Manager Rick Getschow told the Eden Prairie Local News.Amazon has pressed pause on a major UK roll-out of its till-free grocery stores, as the cost of living crunch forces shoppers to cut back.
Same goes for a planned 40,000-square-foot store in Eden Prairie, Minn. Ritter said he hasn't heard from the Seattle company since September about his town's 35,000-square-foot store, which is now fully built, adding that his requests for an update have been ignored. "It's just a business decision on Amazon's part, and they're not very good at sharing," Daniel Ritter, the interim community development director in Tinley Park, Ill., griped to his local Patch. "We don't comment on our future roadmap," an Amazon spokesperson told The Westport Journal. Other inquiring media outlets have received matching no-comment replies.Ī similar story is also taking place in the suburbs of Chicago and Minneapolis.
Westport blogger Dan Woog writes that he's been fielding constant questions about the town's store status, after activity ground to a halt at the once-bustling construction site. That original tally doesn't include places like Westport, Conn., where residents have been waiting for months for their Amazon Fresh store to open. Initial reports indicated at least seven built-out locations sitting idle in California, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.
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