Amazon’s grocery store plans overblown?

It would appear that news accounts of Amazon’s plans to opens thousands of grocery stores are greatly overblown — at least for the time being.



Amazon’s brick-and-mortar fledgling initiatives have been in the spotlight in recent weeks with the opening of its checkout-less convenience store, Amazon Go, in Seattle. Last week, some reports had the e-commerce giant planning to open 2,000 grocery stores.



"It's absolutely not correct," Amazon spokeswoman Pia Arthur said in an emailed statement to cnet.com. "We have no plans to open 2,000 of anything. Not even close. We are still learning."



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