Amazon to Shut Eight Go Comfort Shops

Amazon is completely closing eight of its Amazon Go comfort shops.

The cashierless shops are situated in New York Metropolis, Seattle and San Francisco. Two Seattle-based shops have been shut for a while, Amazon says, however six shops nonetheless working — two in New York Metropolis and 4 in San Francisco — are set to shut April 1. 

“Like several bodily retailer, we periodically assess our portfolio of shops and make optimization choices alongside the way in which,” Amazon mentioned in an announcement. “We stay dedicated to the Amazon Go format, function greater than 20 Amazon Go shops throughout the US, and can proceed to be taught which places and options resonate most with clients as we preserve evolving our Amazon Go shops.”

Amazon Go shops enable folks to buy with out standing in a checkout line — clients enter the shop utilizing the Amazon app, seize what they need and exit the shop, and the invoice is paid by way of a bank card on the app.

Final month, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy mentioned the corporate desires to “go massive” on one other type of bodily retailer, grocery shops. Final yr, Amazon introduced it might be closing all of its bodily bookstores, in addition to its Pop Up and 4-star shops.

The corporate says it’s going to proceed to open new Amazon Go shops, corresponding to a not too long ago opened retailer in Puyallup, Washington.