Amazon’s grocery business model has been the subject of scrutiny recently, with reports of store closures, layoffs, and struggles to compete in the retail industry. Despite being the largest e-commerce enterprise in the world with an annual revenue of over $450 billion, Amazon’s grocery business is facing challenges that have led to questions about its future.

According to an analysis, Whole Foods, Amazon Go, and Amazon convenience stores may disappear from the U.S. economic landscape. This news comes as the retail industry faces immense pressure, with even the biggest companies falling victim to the retail apocalypse. During the latest earnings call, CEO Andy Jassy admitted that Amazon still hasn’t figured out a successful model for the grocery sector. As a result, the company is canceling plans to expand its chains until it can differentiate them from established competitors in the market.

Amazon’s Fresh supermarkets and cashier-less convenience stores saw a sales boom during the pandemic, but foot traffic has sharply declined since the second half of 2021, and the company’s revenue is steadily shrinking. This decline in sales has led Amazon to introduce cost-cutting measures to its brick-and-mortar business. The company has postponed the construction of its second headquarters in Northern Virginia and confirmed plans to cut 18,000 jobs from its global workforce. Additionally, in a memo to staff, Jassy announced that the retailer is going to eliminate an additional 9,000 jobs in the next few weeks, marking the second largest round of layoffs in the company's history. Jassy noted that Amazon is not done making final decisions on which roles will be eliminated, and in the next couple of months, more roles could be on the chopping block