#1,617 - Amazon to close eight Amazon Go stores in Seattle, San Francisco and New York

Amazon is permanently closing eight of its cashierless Amazon Go convenience stores in Seattle, San Francisco and New York. The eight stores will remain open until April 1, a spokesperson for the company told TechCrunch. The closures mark Amazon’s latest move to rein in some of its brick-and-mortar retail operations. The news was first reported by GeekWire. 

“Like any physical retailer, we periodically assess our portfolio of stores and make optimization decisions along the way,” a spokesperson for the company told TechCrunch in an email. “In this case, we’ve decided to close a small number of Amazon Go stores in Seattle, New York City, and San Francisco. We remain committed to the Amazon Go format, operate more than 20 Amazon Go stores across the U.S., and will continue to learn which locations and features resonate most with customers as we keep evolving our Amazon Go stores.”

The company debuted its first cashierless location near its headquarters in Seattle in 2016. Amazon says that it continues to grow Amazon Go stores, noting that it recently opened a new location in Puyallup, Washington.

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