Amazon's latest pivot: Bye-bye, automated grocery stores

An Amazon employee at its Fresh grocery store

David Ryder/Getty Images

• Amazon is closing its Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go stores, the company said Tuesday.
• The company has yet to find "a truly distinctive customer experience" to expand, Amazon said.
• Amazon Fresh, which the company built from scratch, opened its first store in 2020.

Amazon is closing the supermarket chain that it spent nearly six years building from scratch.

The tech and retail giant said...