Amazon to close most Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh stores in days

NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon said this week that it was closing almost all of its Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh locations within days as it narrows its focus on food delivery and its grocery chain, Whole Foods Market. Some of the shuttered stores will be converted into Whole Foods locations, the Seattle company said in a blog post. The announcement arrived shortly before Amazon said Wednesday that it was cutting about 16,000 corporate jobs, its second round of mass layoffs in three months. Late last year, CEO A ...