Amazon Fresh expands with nine stores — here’s where
Amazon has been busy expanding its Amazon Fresh high-tech grocery store concept.
In addition to other recent Amazon Fresh store openings covered by Chain Store Age, the omnichannel giant has opened nine new Amazon Fresh stores since September 2024.
Here are the opening dates and locations of the new stores.
Sept. 12
- Elk Grove, Calif.
- Fontana, Calif.
Sept. 26
- Oxford Valley, Penn.
Oct. 24
- Torrance, Calif.
- East Setauket, N.Y.
- Plainview, N.Y.
Nov. 7
- Citrus Heights, Calif.
- Poway, Calif. (San Diego metro market)
- Woodland Park, N.J.
Amazon Fresh – a closer look
Amazon debuted Amazon Fresh in 2020, in Woodland Hills, Calif. Other recent Amazon Fresh store openings include four units opened in Roseville, Calif., Tinley Park, Ill., Lodi, N.J. and Bensalem, Penn. in late August 2024, and a location which launched in Eatontown, N.J. in June 2024.
The Amazon Fresh format features a variety of high-tech omnichannel features designed to merge online grocery shopping with an elevated in-store experience. These include fast grocery delivery and pickup options, and all four new locations feature the Amazon Dash Cart smart shopping cart and Amazon One palm-based payment devices.
Some locations, which typically measure between roughly 30,000 and 60,000 sq. ft., also feature Amazon’s latest brick-and-mortar design unveiled last year in select Chicago and Southern California stores and in an Amazon Fresh store that opened Thursday, Nov. 7 in Glen Burnie, Md. (part of the suburban Baltimore metro market).
In addition, customers who shop Amazon Fresh stores can save up to 30% on 4,000 weekly rotating grocery items across the aisles both in-store and online, every day. Prime members have exclusive access to Prime Savings, which offers 10% of on hundreds of additional grocery items across the aisles.
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With these openings, the company is operating 60 Amazon Fresh locations across California, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington and Virginia; as well as an Amazon Fresh warehouse with pickup and storefront offerings in Nashville.
