Amazon Fresh Announces Second Chicago-area Grocery Store Opening

Chicago Tribune Retail & FoodService January 25, 2021

Amazon Fresh, the online shopping behemoth’s high-tech grocery store, plans to open its second location in the Chicago area next week.

The 45,000-square-foot store will open Thursday at 16 E. Golf Road in Schaumburg, in a former Babies R Us space, Amazon said Friday.

The first local Amazon Fresh store, a concept that includes checkout-free Dash Carts and voice-enabled Alexa terminals scattered throughout the store, opened in early December in Naperville.

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