In 2019, while 70% of Fábricas de Francia stores moved to Liverpool, the remaining 21 branches became Suburbia stores and since then, Liverpool began to expand Suburbia stores in the country, either reaching fashion malls where Liverpool is present as the main anchor, or in cities or towns with more than 70,000 inhabitants. On September 12, 2018, Grupo Liverpool announced that the format Fábricas de Francia will disappear to convert the 41 stores into the Liverpool or Suburbia formats. On April 4, having concluded the formalities of the transaction, the incorporation of the same to Liverpool began. The final closure of the operation (purchase) was carried out on Mawhen the Federal Economic Competition Commission authorized the sale. On January 18, 2016, Walmart de México announced the start of the sales process for this format, which ended when the El Puerto de Liverpool chain acquired 100% of the chain on August 10, 2016. In 1997, Suburbia had more than 9,000 employees. In 1994, together with Vips, Suburbia joined the Cifra Walmart group (which in turn changed to Walmart de México in 2001). In 1986, together with Aurrerá, Bodega Aurrerá, Superama, Vips and El Portón, Grupo Cifra was created. The company opened the first location in its growing chain of Amazon Fresh full-size grocery stores in August 2020 in Woodland Hills, California, another Los Angles-area community, and now has 23 Fresh locations across six states and Washington, D.C.The first branch was opened on Octoin Taxqueña, south of Mexico City, in which its concept was born as a department store for clothing, footwear and accessories for the whole family. The company opened two Go Grocery stores in the Seattle area in 2020 but phased out the brand just over a year later, underscoring its intention to focus on Go and Fresh stores moving forward.Īmazon’s disclosure that it is developing a tweaked version of its Go convenience format comes a week after the retailer announced it would open its first physical clothing store, Amazon Style, in Glendale, California, just outside Los Angeles, later in 2022. This isn’t the first time Amazon has launched a new format under the Go brand.
The company said the expansion would happen «in the coming months,» but did not indicate how many locations it is planning to open in the Southern California metropolis or where they will be located. convenience store has 2,425 square feet of retail space, according to figures published by Statista in 2019.Īmazon said it plans to bring the new Go format to the Los Angeles region - where it already operates several brick-and-mortar Fresh grocery stores - after the Mill Creek store opens. By comparison, Amazon’s first Go location, which Amazon announced in 2016 and opened in January 2018 in Seattle, has about 1,800 square feet of retail space - what the retailer described at the time as «conveniently compact.»
SE in Mill Creek, of which about 3,240 square feet will be front-of-house space. The Go store in Mill Creek will occupy a 6,150-square-foot site at 13209 39th Ave. «We think local residents and commuters will enjoy the ease of our Just Walk Out Shopping to quickly and conveniently shop from an expanded selection of tasty, ready-to-eat food items and grab-and-go beverages and snacks in their own neighborhood,» the spokesperson said.Ī key difference between the new Go stores and their city-based counterparts, which are located Chicago, New York, Seattle and San Francisco, is their size. Like Amazon’s urban Go locations, the suburban stores will be equipped with Amazon’s Just Walk Out frictionless checkout technology, which uses computer vision to record customers’ purchases as they walk through a store and charges them automatically as they exit.Īmazon said the new stores will feature a range of beer and wine, including local selections, adding that it plans to add new, unspecified items after the format debuts. The new line of stores augments Amazon’s existing fleet of smaller, urban-focused Go stores and continues the company’s multifaceted push to expand its network of physical locations.Īmazon is positioning its latest retail concept as a way to reach on-the-go shoppers located outside the downtown locations where its existing Amazon Go stores are located.The first of the new retail locations, which will sport the Amazon Go name and offer grab-and-go foods, beverages and everyday essentials, is set to open «in the coming months» in the Seattle suburb of Mill Creek, Washington, an Amazon spokesperson said in an emailed statement.Amazon is planning to launch a new convenience store format aimed at suburban shoppers, the retailer announced Tuesday.
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