Amazon is closing all Contemporary grocery shops within the UK

Amazon is pivoting its grocery operations within the UK, announcing that it’s going to shut 14 of its Amazon Contemporary shops within the nation. The remaining 5 Amazon Contemporary areas within the UK shall be transformed to the Entire Meals Market model. Relatively than the brick and mortar retailers, Amazon stated it’ll give attention to on-line grocery deliveries throughout the area. In 2026, the corporate stated it expects so as to add perishables to its Identical-Day Supply orders for UK prospects, which was simply introduced within the US final month.

The transfer echoes an identical contraction in 2023, the place Amazon stated it will shutter each some Contemporary supermarkets and a few Go comfort shops. Many of those retailers highlighted the Simply Stroll Out tech from Amazon, which it launched within the US in 2018 and in the UK in 2021. Simply Stroll Out eradicated cashiers in these shops and as an alternative charged prospects through the use of a community of cameras, sensors and human observers checking video feeds to calculate the tab for an individual’s buy after which cost them afterwards. Nevertheless, the strategy yielded considerations round price, accuracy and privateness. Amazon stopped using Simply Stroll Out in its US Contemporary shops final yr.

Replace, September 23, 2025, 5:55PM ET: Revised to right a misstatement about Amazon’s present use of Simply Stroll Out within the US.