that included the right to acquire a stake in the company.Īn Amazon spokesperson confirmed the location of five future stores, but declined to comment on the rest of the locations identified by Bloomberg from planning and permitting documents, state licensing rolls and news reports.

In a move industry insiders took as a sign of its ambitions, Amazon last year struck a deal with a large grocery distributor called SpartanNash Co. to wealthier customers looking to pick up online orders. Amazon Fresh, industry watchers say, is a way for the company to become even stickier with devoted Prime members, as well as appeal to a broad cross-section of America-from lower-income shoppers who frequent discounters like Walmart Inc. grocery market and has watched traditional chains finally start figuring out how to sell food online. More than a decade after it started selling groceries, Amazon has a tiny sliver of the $900 billion U.S.

The company is also testing the “Just Walk Out” cashierless shopping technology created for its Go convenience stores at an Amazon Fresh location in Illinois. 11 opened Thursday, and Amazon is working on at least 28 more, from Philadelphia to the Sacramento suburbs. The first Amazon Fresh store opened to the public in Los Angeles in September. was quietly building a national grocery chain. As many businesses struggled to survive the pandemic, Inc.

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