Amazon pulls back on UK grocery store expansion ambitions

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Amazon has paused the rollout of its checkout-free store grocery format in the UK following disappointing sales.

Amazon is understood to have pulled out of talks on dozens of new sites set for further roll-out of its Fresh store format and to have called off the search for new locations.

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