Amazon's retail grocery business struggles, despite advanced tech - Marketplace
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The e-commerce and cloud company has slowed grocery expansion plans and closed half of its convenience stores in recent years.

Amazon is consolidating its grocery business after a rough couple of years for its physical retail stores. The company told Marketplace in a statement it’s eliminating “a very small number” of jobs across teams working on Amazon Go convenience stores and Amazon Fresh grocery stores.

  • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    17 hours ago

    It was bound to happen. The model wasn’t that reliable, and Amazon was basically paying so many people to double-check the model, they may as well have staffed the store the traditional way, with a self-checkout.

    Plus, in the eyes of much of the public, those people they hired to double-check the model were instead hired to act as traditional cashiers working remotely behind an impersonal, semi-friendly dystopian interface.