Amazon to Shutter Amazon Books and Pop Up Stores as Grocery Becomes Focal Point

The closures won’t affect grocery stores and the dates the stores will stop operating vary.

The e-commerce giant willclose 68 stores in total.

The 4-star stores feature items like electronics and toys.

The move leaves grocery as the main focus for Amazon’s physical store strategy.

It’ll also keep developing Amazon Style apparel stores and increasing its Starbucks Pickup and Amazon Go locations.

It also hasplans for an apparel storewith the technology in Los Angeles.

“This, in our view, was a lost opportunity.”