Amazon is closing all Contemporary grocery shops within the UK

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

The transfer echoes the same contraction in 2023, the place Amazon stated it might shutter each some Contemporary supermarkets and a few Go comfort shops. Many of those outlets 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 a substitute charged clients 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. Nonetheless, the method yielded considerations round value, accuracy and privateness. Amazon stopped using Simply Stroll Out in its US Contemporary shops final 12 months.

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