Amazon is closing all Recent 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 Recent shops within the nation. The remaining 5 Amazon Recent places within the UK will probably be transformed to the Complete Meals Market model. Fairly than the brick and mortar outlets, Amazon stated it would deal with on-line grocery deliveries inside the area. In 2026, the corporate stated 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 identical contraction in 2023, the place Amazon stated it might shutter each some Recent 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 an alternative charged prospects by utilizing 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 method yielded considerations round price, accuracy and privateness. Amazon stopped using Simply Stroll Out in its US Recent 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.