Thursday’s store preview for was select neighborhood customers only, but Amazon Fresh in Woodland Hills will soon be open to the general public. Alexa is going to be busy Thursday on the west end of the San Fernando Valley. That’s because the first Amazon Fresh grocery store opens in Woodland Hills. Long in the making, the store’s debut at the former site of the Toys “R” Us on Topanga Canyon Boulevard ushers in a new brick-and-mortar chapter for the e-commerce giant. Amazon officials tout the store as highly convenient with decent prices (like 15-cent bananas) and new tech-driven forms of in-store shopping. The concept brings the company’s artificial intelligence assistant, Alexa, right to the aisles. And, if customers prefer, they can run-in-run-out without ever going through a traditional checkout. Or, in a nod to the COVID-19 era, they can stick with online shopping and pick up the goods at the store. “There’s a lot that goes into a grocery store, and we’re quite excited about this one,” said Jeff Helbling, vice president of Amazon Fresh Stores. Cart or Dash Cart? Woodland Hills will be the first to get a taste of food shopping with the Amazon Dash Cart, a […]
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