All Amazon Fresh stores in UK to close

Company confirms plan to shut 19 shops with stronger focus on Whole Foods outlets after concept of stores without tills fails to catch on

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Amazon is preparing to shut down all of its Amazon Fresh stores in the UK, just four years after the US tech company launched its first grocery shop in London.

The company plans to close all 19 Fresh stores, with plans to convert five of these into Whole Foods Market shops, the US organic grocery chain that it bought in 2017.