“Amazon shuttering more than a quarter of its Go stores highlights the company’s ongoing challenges in building its physical retail footprint.”
Amazon is closing eight of its 31 Go stores on April 1, in Seattle, New York and San Francisco. Seattle is where the first cashierless store opened in 2018. A month earlier it paused the Fresh grocery rollout. The spokesperson says Amazon “remains committed to the Amazon Go format” while shutting a quarter of it. Five years of cameras and sensors, and it still cannot beat a guy at a register.