Amazon to shut its UK grocery shops | EUROtoday

Amazon is planning to shut its 19 UK grocery shops lower than 5 years after it launched the till-free websites, the agency confrimed.

Amazon mentioned 5 of the shops earmarked for closure could be transformed in to Whole Foods shops, a contemporary and entire meals model which Amazon owns.

The firm added that it might deal with its on-line supply providers within the groceries sector, together with with its companions Morrisons, Co-op, Iceland, and Gopuff.

Amazon mentioned it has launched a session course of on its closure proposals.

It started its first closure of the websites in 2023 when it shut down three of its Amazon Fresh shops in London.

Amazon opened its first UK grocery retailer in Ealing Broadway in March 2021.

Shoppers would stroll in to the retailers, decide up what they need, stroll out and their Amazon account could be billed for the objects on their Amazon account, which have been recognized utilizing know-how together with in-store cameras.