By Jeff Wells Source: Grocery Dive It’s been a little over two years since Amazon launched the much-anticipated brick-and-mortar banner of its Amazon Fresh grocery brand. When news of the chain’s arrival first came out in early 2020, the rest of the industry girded itself for the arrival of a [...]
By Sam Silverstein Source: Grocery Dive Amazon announced on Thursday that it has opened a new Fresh grocery store in greater Washington, D.C., equipped with its Just Walk Out checkout-free technology. The company also said it is developing three additional Fresh locations in the area, which a company spokesperson said [...]
By Lauren Rosenblatt Source: The Seattle Times The push to unionize Amazon has come to Seattle — but it won’t play out in the same way as other union drives. Instead of warehouse workers, it’s focused on those Amazon employees serving lunches and stocking grocery shelves. Instead of an organizing [...]
By Russell Redman Source: Supermarket News Amazon’s brick-and-mortar supermarket chains, Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market, are settling into distinct market niches amid improved foot traffic and decreased cross-shopping between the two banners, according to an analysis by Placer.ai. Nearly two dozen Amazon Fresh stores have opened their doors since [...]
Amazon reportedly has plans in place for more than two dozen new Amazon Fresh supermarkets, including locations outside the retail banner’s current two-state market area. Seattle-based Amazon is “quietly building a national grocery chain,” Bloomberg reported today, saying that at least 28 more Amazon Fresh stores are in the works “from [...]