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Amazon has shuttered the last of its two Fresh Pickup facilities, marking the end of its experiment with a drive-in and drop-off grocery service. At the Fresh Pickup sites, customers would place …
Shuttered brick-and-mortar locations mark the end of company’s experiment with drive-up grocery service
Amazon has closed the last of its two Fresh Pickup facilities, marking the end of its experiment with a drive-thru grocery delivery and delivery service.
The retail giant says closure of 2017 pilot project will have no impact on its expanding delivery pickup service
In the spring of 2017, just before Amazon bought Whole Foods for $13.7 billion and made big plans to reshape physical stores, it opened two drive-up AmazonFresh Pickup grocery locations in Seattle. Now, with grocery delivery commonplace, incumbent chains offering pick-up orders, and Amazon’s own retail plans in retreat, leaving planned storefronts empty, GeekWire and the Seattle Times report both Fresh PickUp locations have shut down, including one in Sodo near Starbucks headquarters that closed in December.