Amazon has restructured its corporate team for its grocery and convenience store brands, and is firing employees working on Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go Chains, online retailers have confirmed.
“We regularly review our team structure to ensure that we set up optimally to serve our customers. Following recent reviews, we have identified a very small number of roles in grocery store organizations around the world. Amazon spokespersons are committed to notifying employees whose roles are affected and supporting them through the transition. Supermarket News on wednesday.
Amazon operates more than a dozen Amazon Go stores in the Seattle, Chicago, New York City and Los Angeles areas. The Seattle-based online giant operates 63 Amazon Fresh Grocery Stores across the United States as of February 15th. scrapehero.com.
Employees leaving the company will receive access to retirement offers and career transition services, as well as 60 days of wages and benefits, and transition health benefits.
It is unclear how many employees were fired in the restructuring.
Corporate Shake Up comes about a month and a half after the CEO of Whole Foods Market Jason Bouchel has been named He leads Amazon’s global grocery store organization, founded in 2022.
Claire Peters leads online retailers Amazon Fresh, Amazon Go and Grocery Partnerships Business.
“This expanded responsibility gives us the opportunity to see collective groceries offerings across Amazon Fresh, Whole Foods Market, Amazon Go and the grocery partnership,” Buechel said in a LinkedIn post in late January. “And help us move forward with our goal of making grocery shopping simpler, faster and more affordable.”
Amazon’s grocery business has been in constant state of change for several years. The latest major update is launching the latest concept. Amazon’s Groceryin Chicago in October.
“Today, customers shopping at Whole Foods Market are looking for natural organic products. But many of them also know that they’ll visit additional stores and get their favorite national grocery brands and home essentials to complete their weekly stores,” Amazon said in a prepared statement in October. “Through Amazon.com, Amazon Fresh, Amazon Go, Whole Foods Market, Shird Party Grocery Partners and this new shopping experience, we offer a wide selection of national and local brands as well as fresh, high quality produce, meat and seafood.”
