By Bill Read
February 23, 2021
Where is Amazon Fresh opening new stores?
Report Highlights
- Where are Amazon Fresh stores opening?
- We have tracked 25 locations.
- What types of big box retail are they choosing?
- Sizes range from 25,000 sf to 44,000 sf
With all the recent news announcement of store closings and Chapter 11 filings, Retail Specialists has been looking at what anchor stores are opening and in what types of real estate.
We recently examined all the new locations Dicks Sporting Goods opened in 2020 and found that most of their new store openings were in former department store boxes, 14 out of 19 were at malls and were a former department store.
Now we take a deep dive into all the new locations Amazon Fresh was opening and what kind of real estate is the most attractive to them.
| # Stores | Former Use |
| 1 | Apparel |
| 3 | Dept Store |
| 9 | Grocery |
| 1 | Hardware |
| 5 | New |
| 1 | Office Supply |
| 5 | Toy Superstore |
| 25 | Total |
The Read Report
Industry report on trends with commercial retail real estate.
Researched and written by Bill Read.
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