Amazon: Not Opening 2,000 Brick-and-Mortar Stores
SEATTLE — Amazon is denying reports that it will open as many as 2,000 brick-and-mortar stores.
“It’s absolutely not correct,” Amazon spokesperson Pia Arthur told CNBC. “We have no plans to open 2,000 of anything. Not even close.”
The Seattle-based online retailer also denied reports that Amazon envisions opening 30,000- to 40,000-square-foot stores that would resemble a discount grocery chain like Aldi.
Amazon has “no plans to build such a store,” she told technology website cnet.com.
Amazon this week opened a beta test site in Seattle for Amazon Go, a new convenience-store-like physical retail outlet with no checkout required. It uses an app and “just walk out” technology to automatically detect when a customer takes or returns products to the shelves and keeps track of them in a virtual cart. When the customer is done shopping, he or she leaves the store and Amazon charges the customer’s Amazon account and sends a receipt.
Amazon Go offers breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack options, beverages, grocery staples and meal kits.
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