Amazon's retail grocery business struggles, despite advanced tech.
Amazon's retail grocery business struggles, despite advanced tech.

The e-commerce and cloud company has slowed grocery expansion plans and closed half of its convenience stores in recent years.

Amazon is consolidating its grocery business after a rough couple of years for its physical retail stores. The company told Marketplace in a statement it’s eliminating “a very small number” of jobs across teams working on Amazon Go convenience stores and Amazon Fresh grocery stores.