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 places within the UK can be transformed to the Entire Meals Market model. Reasonably than the brick and mortar retailers, Amazon mentioned it can concentrate on on-line grocery deliveries inside the area. In 2026, the corporate mentioned it expects so as to add perishables to its Similar-Day Supply orders for UK prospects, which was simply introduced within the US final month.

The transfer echoes an analogous contraction in 2023, the place Amazon mentioned 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 a substitute 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. Nonetheless, the method yielded issues round price, 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.