# Greetings from the Amazon Fresh Supermarket! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [December 29, 2022, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greetings-from-the-amazon-fresh-supermarket/977281 "2022-12-29T14:39:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2023, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greetings-from-the-amazon-fresh-supermarket/977281/41 "2023-01-12T15:20:57Z")
So I’ve visited the store a couple more times and it’s really good for those instances when you just need a couple of things. I can literally run in, grab what I need, and run right out. I was in and out in under 3 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2023, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greetings-from-the-amazon-fresh-supermarket/977281/42 "2023-01-12T17:12:55Z")
Sounds like it is unsuccessful: > **[Amazon Fresh Stores Have Gone Stale](https://therealdeal.com/new-york/2022/12/21/amazon-fresh-stores-have-gone-stale/)** > > Amazon Fresh stores that appear ready to open are sitting closed across the country two years after launching with expansion plans. It has also cut back other stores: > Amazon already had begun a physical-store pullback last March, when the company unveiled plans to close all of its bookstores, pop-up retail sites and shops carrying toys and home goods in the U.S. and U.K. That included 68 locations under the Amazon Books, Amazon 4-Star and Amazon Pop-Up banners. > **[Amazon expands job cuts to 18,000, with stores in the mix](https://www.winsightgrocerybusiness.com/amazon/amazon-expands-job-cuts-18000-stores-mix)** > > CEO Andy Jassy points to "uncertain economy" as the retail giant plans more "role reductions" in 2023. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2023, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greetings-from-the-amazon-fresh-supermarket/977281/43 "2023-01-12T21:14:51Z")
We’ve got one of those Amazon Fresh stores less than two miles from my house. It shut down and replaced a perfectly good and well-patronized chain supermarket (and pharmacy) . Now we’ve got a bright and shiny but completely empty and nonfunctioning store taking up space. And it’s only about a mile from the Amazon bookstore that closed down after two years. Fortunately, the Barnes and Noble they displaced down the road moved into the former Amazon books spot. It’s a smaller shop, but it’s a heavily-trafficked “lifestyle” mall. The Amazon store wouldn’t carry local authors, like me. The Barnes and Noble does. Maybe they’ll finally give up the supermarket spot and another, functioning one can move it. It’d be about the sixth supermarket in the same spot in the time I’ve lived here. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2023, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greetings-from-the-amazon-fresh-supermarket/977281/44 "2023-01-12T22:40:03Z")
If you’re lucky, they won’t sell it with a stipulation that it can’t be used again as a supermarket for x number of years. That happened to a downtown pharmacy in a village near me. Took years to get a pharmacy downtown again. I’m trying to remember if that mess was caused by Rite-Aid, who years before that had a fire in their then-downtown store – and left the damaged building as a hulk in the middle of downtown for years, themselves moving over to a street they thought had more traffic. They probably thought the damaged building sitting in the middle of the traditional business district was an advantage as it might discourage people from doing their general shopping there instead. – eventually the bookstore next door managed to buy it and renovate it. Indy bookstore, still there and thriving, though admittedly carrying at least as many office supplies and cards these days as books. These businesses don’t give a damn about the places they’re in, or the people living in them. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2023, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greetings-from-the-amazon-fresh-supermarket/977281/45 "2023-01-13T01:45:14Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > We’ve got one of those Amazon Fresh stores less than two miles from my house. It shut down and replaced a perfectly good and well-patronized chain supermarket (and pharmacy) . Now we’ve got a bright and shiny but completely empty and nonfunctioning store taking up space. And it’s only about a mile from the Amazon bookstore that closed down after two years. Fortunately, the Barnes and Noble they displaced down the road moved into the former Amazon books spot. It’s a smaller shop, but it’s a heavily-trafficked “lifestyle” mall. > > The Amazon store wouldn’t carry local authors, like me. The Barnes and Noble does. > > Maybe they’ll finally give up the supermarket spot and another, functioning one can move it. It’d be about the sixth supermarket in the same spot in the time I’ve lived here.- Sounds familiar 🙃(see post 37): > [@Greetings from the Amazon Fresh Supermarket!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greetings-from-the-amazon-fresh-supermarket/977281/37): > > They built one of these down the road from us, displacing a perfectly good and well-patronized supermarket. It’s been ready to go for months, but they still haven’t opened the damned thing, so it’s just taking up space. It’s less than a mile away from the Amazon Books store that they opened, then closed only about a year or two later. And only a few miles from the local movie complex that they took over and turned into an Amazon Distribution Center. Amazon – making life better. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2024, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greetings-from-the-amazon-fresh-supermarket/977281/46 "2024-04-02T18:03:24Z")
> [@chela](#): > > You can still continue to enjoy the benefits of shopping in stores enabled with Just Walk Out They cheated! We all thought this was very sophisticated, advanced technology, yet: > Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than [1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/how-amazons-big-bet-on-just-walk-out-stumbled?rc=5xvgzc) to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped. > **[Download Amazon Prime Video for Windows, macOS, Android, APK, iOS and Web App...](https://gizmodo.com/download/amazon-prime-video)** > > Enjoy unlimited entertainment with Amazon Prime Video—a seamless, on-demand streaming platform packed with original series, movies, and offline viewing options. Available for mobile devices, desktops, smart TVs, etc. > Instead, Amazon is moving towards [Dash Carts](https://gizmodo.com/amazons-next-big-bet-on-cashless-shopping-is-a-smart-gr-1844377270), a scanner and screen that’s embedded in your shopping cart, allowing you to checkout as you shop. These offer a more reliable solution than Just Walk Out. Amazon Fresh stores will also feature self check out counters from now on, for people who aren’t Amazon members. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2024, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greetings-from-the-amazon-fresh-supermarket/977281/47 "2024-04-02T19:35:07Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > I’m curious how automated it really is, and if a person ultimately has to watch me walk around the store and confirm each “purchase.” So my suspicion was actually correct. Interesting. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greetings-from-the-amazon-fresh-supermarket/977281.md?page=2)