Amazon is closing its grocery stores. Here’s what it’s building instead

Amazon will double down on the Whole Foods brand, killing two of its own physical retail experiments in the process.

The online retail giant said Tuesday that it will close all of its Amazon Go convenience stores and Amazon Fresh brick-and-mortar grocery stores. In total, around 70 locations across the two sub-brands will close, beginning in February, with some to later reopen under the Whole Foods brand.

Amazon Fresh stores served as a physical counterpart to Amazon’s online grocery delivery service by the same name...