Amazon is closing eight Go convenience stores, including two in Seattle, as it continues to evaluate its brick-and-mortar strategy.
The closures hit the company’s network of Amazon Go shops, convenience stores that sell snacks, grab-and-go items and drinks. They feature Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology that allows customers to skip checkout lines. In addition to Amazon Go, the company operates Amazon Fresh grocery stores and acquired Whole Foods in 2017.
A spokesperson confirmed Friday that Amazon would permanently shutter two stores in Seattle, two in New York City and four in San Francisco. In Seattle, the closing stores are located at Third Avenue and Pine Street inside the former Macy’s building, and at Fourth Avenue and Pike Street.
