More than 3,000 full-time and part-time Amazon Fresh jobs have been created in Southern California since the first local store opened in Woodland Hills in the fall of 2020, the company said.On the 2nd of March 2022, Amazon opened its first checkout-free grocery store of the year in Southwark, London. Southern California stores currently in operation are in Fullerton, Irvine, Long Beach, Ladera Heights, North Hollywood, Northridge, Whittier and Woodland Hills. The budding supermarket chain has 18 stores, including eight in Southern California, four in Illinois, one in Maryland, one in Pennsylvania, one in Virginia, two in Washington state and one in Washington, D.C. Customers not feeling so tech-savvy can use traditional checkout lanes staffed by Amazon employees.Īmazon Fresh carries a broad selection of produce, meat and seafood, baked goods and prepared foods made daily at the store, including made-to-order pizzas, rotisserie chickens and hot sandwiches. Other Amazon Fresh stores use checkout-free Dash Carts which also allow shoppers to sign in using a QR code from their Amazon app.

If a customer wants a receipt, they can visit a kiosk in the store, enter their email address and a receipt will be sent to them. When they exit the store, their card will be charged for all of the items in their virtual cart.

Customers pass through a scanning station when entering the store, enabling them to use either a QR code in their Amazon app, their palm print using Amazon One or a credit or debit card linked to an Amazon account.Īs they shop, Amazon’s technology adds up items taken off the shelf and put into a shopper’s virtual (and real) cart.

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