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.
Sounds like it is unsuccessful:
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.
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.
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.
Sounds familiar 
(see post 37):
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 to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped.
Instead, Amazon is moving towards Dash Carts, 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.
So my suspicion was actually correct. Interesting.