Amazon’s most recent outing in the grocery industry, Amazon Fresh, opens tomorrow, Thursday, March 18, at 7 a.m. at the home of the former Haggen and Albertson grocery stores in the Lakewood Plaza Marketplace Mall, at 6235 Spring Street in the East. Long beach.
Councilwoman Stacy Mungo Flanigan, in whose district the new high-tech grocery store is located, attended a preview on Wednesday.
“It was great to meet the team there and see how excited and enthusiastic they are,” she said, adding that she had to do “the wagon experience”, referring to Amazon Fresh’s multifunctional Amazon Dash Cart, a smart shopping cart that allows users to find items, track purchases and walk out of the store without skipping the checkout. Buyer’s purchases are billed into your Amazon account. There is also the traditional check-out option for those who are up to date with the latest gizmos.
At home, we just say, ‘Alexa, add grapes to your shopping list,’ and as soon as you’re ready to shop, tell your Amazon app in which hallway you’ll find your items, and it’s sorting your list by location so you need to. not zigzagging around the store looking for things, ”said Mungo Flanigan.
The online retail juggernaut currently operates 11 Amazon Fresh supermarkets in California and Illinois, but it’s all in for rapid expansion with plans to open more than two dozen stores across the country in the coming weeks and months, according to trade publication Supermarket News.
In addition to groceries, Amazon Fresh will also include lockers for Amazon deliveries, as well as a technology division that sells Amazon products, including the Fire TV Stick, Kindle readers, Fire tablets, and Alexa accessories.