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Amazon is shutting down all of its Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go physical grocery stores in the United States, including every remaining Amazon Fresh location, rather than just a small selective list of closures.

Quick Scoop: What’s Happening

  • Amazon has decided to close every Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go store in the U.S., about 70+ locations in total according to multiple reports.
  • The move is part of a bigger shift to focus on Whole Foods Market stores and online/same‑day grocery delivery instead of Amazon‑branded supermarkets.
  • Many shuttered Amazon Fresh and Go locations are expected to be converted into Whole Foods Market stores over time.
  • Most U.S. closures are scheduled to happen very quickly (as early as the upcoming Sunday), but California stores have a longer runway because state law requires 45 days’ notice for grocery closures.

Are there specific stores on a list?

Here’s the tricky part: there is not yet a single, fully public, official store‑by‑store list that includes every closing Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go location in the U.S. in one place. Many news outlets instead give:

  • The total numbers (around 70–72 stores across Fresh and Go).
  • Regional counts (for example, California is losing 23 Amazon‑branded grocery stores).
  • Occasional named locations in local coverage and forum posts.

Because of that, any “complete list” circulating on forums is usually pieced together from:

  • Local news stories naming specific suburbs and shopping centers.
  • Employee and shopper reports on Reddit, X, and community groups.

Known patterns and examples

From current reporting:

  • Amazon runs 58 Amazon Fresh and 14 Amazon Go stores in the U.S., all of which are slated to close.
  • California alone is expected to lose 19 Amazon Fresh and 1 Amazon Go location, plus a few additional related sites.
  • Earlier waves of closures in 2025 already hit some locations in California and other states, and UK Amazon Fresh shops have also been shut down as a separate program.

On forums, workers and shoppers have discussed specific stores in Southern California (La Verne, Whittier, La Habra and others) receiving closure‑style internal messages or abrupt “store closing soon” timelines, which later lined up with larger closure announcements. These posts aren’t official corporate lists, but they give snapshots of what was happening on the ground.

Why Amazon is doing this

Across sources, the story is consistent:

  • The stores weren’t profitable enough and didn’t show the growth Amazon wanted.
  • Amazon says it never nailed a “distinctive” in‑store experience plus a solid financial model for its own Fresh/Go brands.
  • The company is now doubling down on:
    • Whole Foods Market as the main physical grocery brand.
    • Online grocery and same‑day delivery, including fresh items.

What this means for employees and shoppers

  • Thousands of staff members are affected, though Amazon says it will try to place many into other internal roles or offer severance where reassignment isn’t possible.
  • For shoppers, the Amazon Fresh or Go you visit is expected to close , and in some cases may eventually reopen rebranded as a Whole Foods.

How to check your local store

Because there’s no clean, public master list, the most practical way to confirm whether a specific store is closing and when:

  1. Look for banners, in‑store notices, or emails from Amazon about that exact location.
  2. Check local news for “[your city] Amazon Fresh closing” — many outlets are tracking their area stores.
  3. Ask employees or store management; often they know the approximate closure window even if they can’t share all details yet.

TL;DR: Instead of a selective list of a few Amazon Fresh stores closing, Amazon is winding down the entire Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go store network in the U.S., with closures rolling out now and California seeing a slightly delayed schedule due to state law.

Information gathered from public forums or data available on the internet and portrayed here.