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Amazon to open fresh food stores in US: report

Online retailer Amazon will open small bricks-and-mortar convenience stores selling fresh food in the US, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

According to the Journal, the stores will augment Amazon Fresh, the company’s existing online grocery ordering and delivery service, and initially will only cater for customers of that service.

The company also plans to open drive up stores where online customers have grocery orders delivered to their cars. According to the report, to facilitate such a service, Amazon is developing technology that can automatically read license plates and therefore quickly identify customers.

An Amazon spokeswoman declined to comment on the report, however as AFP reports, the company is no longer a completely online retailer.

It opened a bricks-and-mortar book shop in Seattle last year and plans to open more in the US.

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