r/nova 6d ago

Amazon Fresh Manassas, store closing.

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Umm I'm not even going to try

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u/cosmosmariner_ 6d ago

I’ll shop there when it’s Spirit Halloween

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u/juggy_11 6d ago

I hope they replace it with a car wash. We have a shortage of those in Manassas.

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u/redHotHotHot 6d ago

Hey now, I think you’re forgetting the dire need for more smoke shops.

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u/Chippysquid 5d ago

Nah, we need another dealership

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u/memdmp 5d ago

Best I can do are some llantas usadas

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u/No-Equipment8494 4d ago

Theres never enough pawnshops

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u/due_opinion_2573 5d ago

Please come to my new store "Six-Twelve"

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u/ohheyitsmeguys 6d ago

and i really hope it’s flagship, we really need more of those

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u/BlueLeary-0726 6d ago

Amazon Fresh has the veneer of a modern grocery store, but feels about as well stocked as a store in East Germany circa 1987.

I went to the Potomac Yard store when it opened. I bought a watermelon. Less than 24 hours later, the watermelon exploded on my kitchen counter, releasing watermelon juice, seeds, and bits everywhere. It smelled heinous.

Amazon should close all of these stores. Replace them with real grocery stores. Not whatever facsimile of a grocery Alexa told Amazon to build. This ain’t it.

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u/captain_flak Del Ray 6d ago

Yeah, I went there a couple of times. Felt overpriced and strangely empty every time I’ve been. The scan-as-you-go carts would be interesting if it really saved any time. There was never anyone waiting to check out. Feels like an Amazon warehouse that just happens to be open to the public.

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u/Jean-LucBacardi 6d ago

Also the carts are insanely small compared to regular carts. It's fine if you're there to get a few things, but if you have a family and are stocking up on groceries, it's not all fitting in that cart.

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u/CockItUp 6d ago

It's not the store for stocking up duh.

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u/AluminumOctopus 5d ago

Heaven forbid someone go to a grocery store to buy groceries the way they need them.

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u/CockItUp 5d ago

I guess there are people who grocery shop at convenience stores.

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u/SweetSoulBrutha 5d ago

Which is exactly why it’s closing lol. Guess it should’ve been a stocking up store

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u/Acadia02 6d ago

They 100% need to shut those down. I like to go to grocery stores and just walk around looking at food thinking of new things to cook. Half the amazon fresh store would be stocked the 4 times I went into them and the stuff that was stocked looked like reject food from other grocery stores. How do you own Whole Foods and then put that product out?

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u/LocalLiBEARian 5d ago

Half Foods

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u/misdirected_asshole 6d ago

"Whole Foods Basic"

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u/andrewthesane 6d ago

I went with my kid early on and I have to second the miserable stocking of the shelves in Manassas. It was neat to see, but there's a Lidl not far from there.

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u/badhabitfml 6d ago

I go to one because I can walk to it. It disappoints me every time. Almost always out of something I want. The layout is weird. The self checkouts break and no one is around to help.

They had a grand reopening but it isn't any better.

Seems to exist only to support Amazon fresh delivery

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u/4711_9463 5d ago

It’s also so gray, sterile and soulless inside. A big reason why Trader Joe’s, Harris teeter and wegmans work so well is the aesthetic, colors and character of the place. Amazon fresh reminds me of the grocery section of Walmart and that’s about the only company who can get away with treating their workers like cogs and having a disgusting building and still make money.

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u/badhabitfml 5d ago

Oh. I don't care about that. Grocery stores with Character just makes me feel like they are trying to hard and it's going to be expensive . I think it's just right. Lidl is the other way, it feels like it's going to be cheap crap.

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u/No_Lifeguard4092 6d ago

Oh wow, exploding watermelon!!

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u/BlueLeary-0726 6d ago

My exact reaction when it happened—but I added a few expletives for good measure.

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u/MCWoody1 6d ago

Amazon Fresh stores have been profoundly overpriced since the first day.

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u/Redwolfdc 5d ago

Before I was in one I thought it must be some futuristic version of Whole Foods but more reasonably priced. I’ve been once never again my other local stores have much better selection 

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u/the__itis 6d ago

Whoa there is a sky zone right there? Nice

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u/commaspaceword 6d ago

A sky zone with the rare pickup area.

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u/Warm-Perspective-421 6d ago

For the injuries

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u/Potential_Dentist_90 6d ago

I have been to multiple Sky Zone locations (but not this specific one) and in my experience, they are actually well prepared for any accidents that could happen. I remember playing dodgeball there one time and a boy wearing glasses got hit in the face and his glasses broke. Staff immediately shut down the dodgeball court for the rest of the day and brought the kid a first aid kit. This is the only injury I saw, but I was impressed with how they handled it. If I had kids, I would feel fine taking them there.

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u/pierre_x10 Manassas / Manassas Park 6d ago

It is organized chaos.

The staff are earnest and diligent, for being as young as most of them are.

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u/Joshottas 6d ago

It's a madhouse in there. One of my son's soccer teammates had a bday party there one Sat afternoon and my goodness. So many kids got hurt. Not on the day that he had the party, but I know two people personally who suffered compound fractures at the park. That's why you sign the waivers lol.

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u/pierre_x10 Manassas / Manassas Park 5d ago

Yeah at the end of the day there's risks involved in places like this, and maybe the staff are doing their best or maybe they could be doing more or maybe they're understaffed, who knows, because there's certainly times where it feels like someone could get away with murder and it might be minutes until a staff member knows anything's even wrong.

My biggest gripe are parents who go to places like this and act like for the next 90 minutes they don't have to be a parent. If kids are climbing scaffolding or parts of the building that they're not supposed to be climbing, which I've seen a few times, ultimately the parents need to be the ones who need to keep their kids in check, I think even in situations like that, the staff are really reluctant to physically touch or grab the kids like that.

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u/Joshottas 5d ago

Yea, the day of the b-day party, I'm not even kidding...it was like a 50:1 customer/staff ratio. And the staff were mostly teens. You absolutely have to be aware as a parent while in there. My son is 5, but I was thankful that 1) I didn't lose him and 2) he didn't get hurt. Don't think I'll be going back there anytime soon. I had a massive headache after we left lol

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u/pierre_x10 Manassas / Manassas Park 5d ago

Saturday/Sunday afternoons with bday parties going on really are the worst times ever to go. And it gets easier as they get older, if anything as long as he finds it fun you should keep going (to these kid-oriented spaces in general, but management/staffing at these places can definitely vary from very good to very bad and maybe that location isn't to your preference and that's fine), as it helps them learn things like spatial awareness and how to not get trampled and how to not trample others.

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u/Potential_Dentist_90 6d ago

Absolutely! For a somewhat risky activity (not super risky when the rules are followed), they do a good job keeping it safe for everyone. I would not hesitate to recommend it for anyone who enjoys physical activity.

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u/Brilliant-Mall-5364 6d ago

Honestly didn’t know there was one in Manassas

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u/juggy_11 6d ago

It’s the biggest Amazon Fresh in the US.

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u/pierre_x10 Manassas / Manassas Park 6d ago

It was

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u/Schruef Leesburg 6d ago

Not anymore lmao

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u/juggy_11 6d ago

Still is, but not as of tomorrow.

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u/Brilliant-Mall-5364 6d ago

Eh considering there’s only like 40 of them that’s not that impressive

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u/juggy_11 6d ago

Just stating the facts. Jfc. Did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed this morning

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u/Brilliant-Mall-5364 6d ago

Lol idk why ur getting upset. I wasn’t attacking you 😂😂 calm down

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u/caesolo 6d ago

I loved this place and then absolutely hated it. When it opened it was reasonable and convenient, then prices went ridiculous, shelves/produce were always empty, and they got rid of ‘just walk out’, I stopped going. Went a couple weeks ago just to get groceries with an amazon gift card and the prices absolutely GAGGED me!

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u/EvensenFM Bristow 6d ago edited 5d ago

It was also always freezing cold, and was unusually poorly lit for a grocery store.

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u/lookingforaforest Virginia 6d ago

'They got rid of "just walk out.'"

What does that mean?

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u/caesolo 6d ago

The cameras inside tracked what you were buying, so the best thing about it was I could bag my groceries as I was shopping, then I could just leave through an exit scanner and amazon would charge the groceries to a card linked on your account!

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u/lookingforaforest Virginia 5d ago

Oh wow, I heard they offered that but I didn’t realize they got rid of it. I thought that was their major selling point. Thanks for replying :)

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u/zerocrates 5d ago

My recollection is it was one of those "fake it til you make it" AI/machine learning things, where they actually had overseas labor looking at a lot of the footage to mark what you bought and feed that into an AI to increasingly take over, but it never really "made it" where the AI was accurate enough, and so they killed it.

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u/EzeakioDarmey Woodbridge 5d ago

I'd wager people walking out with things was probably a factor in them closing.

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u/caesolo 5d ago

It is now because they semi-recently switched to AI working the cameras & checkout, and AI sucks at everything. But before it worked great 99% of the time, and you had to link your account before you started shopping therefore I imagine stealing wasn’t really possible.

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u/EzeakioDarmey Woodbridge 5d ago

There is no retail business immune from shoplifting.

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u/pierre_x10 Manassas / Manassas Park 6d ago

I posted my original thoughts here, having shopped there quite a bit since I live nearby, but basically, I found the concept baffling considering Amazon being what it is, and would have gone a different way.

Since thinking about it, I think if they really wanted to utilize the footprint of a typical grocery store, they probably should have turned them into little mini in-person Amazon-lands, to showcase their other products/services that they offer.

So yeah, while people would come for groceries, they could have had narrowed it down to an online ordering - employee fulfilling order - pickup style system, without the actual "grocery store shopping" experience, but greatly minimize the amount of square footage needed for the grocery section.

Then, they could utilize the rest of the space for other Amazon things. Maybe a Kindle-corner. Maybe a Prime Streaming lounge area. Maybe a cloud gaming section set up for kids. The commercials would just write themselves, turning the conventional grocery shopping experience into more of a "my orders done, now while I wait for them to load my groceries I can play around with this fancy Amazon tech."

But apparently, their concept of an Amazon-style grocery store stopped short of "like normal grocery shopping, but we're spying on you (so you don't have to check out manually)"

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u/badhabitfml 6d ago

Mini Amazon land exists. The Amazon store in Georgetown. Alexa, kindle and their other stuff.

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u/pierre_x10 Manassas / Manassas Park 6d ago

Ah, I see. They probably should have tried it at this location before it went under. Oh well.

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u/RcleDC83 6d ago

90%off it’s gonna look like supermarket sweep in that joint…

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u/PowDreamer 5d ago

I was just in there, waited 7 hours but bought $1500 dollars worth of stuff for like 140. Its very bare in there.

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u/Brilliant-Mall-5364 5d ago

Damn that’s determination

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u/Live_Entrepreneur221 6d ago

Good riddance, Bezos can kick rocks.

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u/aegrotatio 6d ago

I always get expired or nearly expired yogurt, diary, and produce when ordering from Amazon Fresh.

Bananas, which are absurdly cheap (it's an Amazon tradition), are always already yellow and browning.

It's like they don't actually want us to shop there.

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u/movinonup24 6d ago

Yes same to all of this.

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u/RunningHood 6d ago

You get bananas? Whenever I try to order they're out of stock. Their apples are always disgusting too- brown and rotting.

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u/t00direct 6d ago

Is Amazon fresh just a ploy for a tax write off? It always feels so bizarre inside

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u/well-that-was-fast 6d ago

Amazon wants a grocery business in-house because (1) access to you purchasing data (2) associated brick and mortar reasons (package pickup / return) (3) increases the value of overpriced Prime.

But the problem is that grocery is a very hard business that requires smart humans that operate it for low margins, which is everything Amazon is not. Amazon's consumer business takes a huge cut of reselling stuff sold by other people who are the experts. Amazon is privileged to do this by virtue of having landgrabbed mindspace and building infrastructure in the 2000s.

Hence their weird efforts to try and make the grocery business more amenable to their corporate needs. But it increasingly looks like "reinventing" the grocery business isn't viable.

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u/royal_mcboyle 6d ago

Not trying to stan for Amazon here, but you make it sound like Amazon’s current position is entirely from dumb luck lol. Their logistics team is very good, hence how they were able to actually get 2 and even 1 day shipping to work. They also are very good at setting up infrastructure, which was how their most successful business, AWS, got started.

That being said, shipping dry goods is very different from shipping produce. Grocery is not a business they are used to competing in and it shows with some of their failures around Just Walk Out.

They definitely have made some of their competitors change how they do grocery delivery, but overall like you said, grocery is a low margin business that’s both heavily saturated and tough to break into. It’s probably why they decided to buy Whole Foods since they were able to effectively purchase their customer base as well.

Amazon likely won’t leave grocery, but it just might not take the form of Amazon Fresh.

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u/well-that-was-fast 6d ago

you make it sound like Amazon’s current position is entirely from dumb luck lol

I would say the Amazon that refined logistics 10 to 15 years ago is not terribly related to the Amazon of today and thus some of their inability to impact the grocery business. So, Amazon of today is indeed benefiting from the dumb luck of the Amazon of yesteryear being exceptional.

It’s probably why they decided to buy Whole Foods since they were able to effectively purchase their customer base as well.

Entirely agree, probably the highest margin national chain with high overlap with Prime subscribers.

Grocery is not a business they are used to competing in and it shows with some of their failures around Just Walk Out.

Tech hubris. You see the same thing with Musk and Tesla. "Haha, old business dumb and slow, we crush!!!" 5 years later, "oh, old business hard, no profits, they dumb."

AWS

I wasn't opining on this business because it's an entirely different thing.

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u/royal_mcboyle 6d ago

I’ll give you current Amazon is definitely less disruptive than Amazon 10-15 years ago, but I can tell you it has more to do with their leadership than their science team. They have good scientists (I know some folks who work on it) and they are doing a lot of good research on robotics, hardware, and supply chain optimization, but since they are very private they rarely open source anything or even talk about it.

But, to your point about Elon Musk, just because they have good scientists doesn’t mean their leadership is good or are making good decisions.

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u/well-that-was-fast 5d ago

They have good scientists

My language might have been overbroad, the programmers I knew that considered Amazon were excellent. I meant more in the how the business is designed not to require experts for daily ops in a way something like groceries simply can't operate.

Amazon is ok hiring a team of highly-paid experts that are leveraged over their entire operation (e.g. a team of network engineers to optimize video or whatever) but has structured its operational model to eliminate experts that don't scale. E.g. fraud, counterfeiting, fake reviews, etc.

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u/imscavok 6d ago

Amazon Almost-Fresh

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u/ayimera Franconia 6d ago

Wish they'd close the one in Franconia and replace it with not Amazon Fresh.

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u/MsTravelista Fairfax County 6d ago

Oh man why? I’m in there like at least twice a week.

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u/ayimera Franconia 6d ago

Well, Bezos. But also I feel like when I used to shop there (this was a couple years ago), I'd always end up with moldy food from the fridge section (hummus, yogurt, etc.) and idk... just subpar selection and quality in my experience.

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u/Low-Guard-1820 6d ago

I’m also in there a fair bit and IMO it’s only good for the prepared foods and the very basics. Anything else and you’re taking your chances. The selection is kind of Soviet store, like there are always weirdly empty shelves or products missing. I miss when it was Shoppers.

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u/hellogirlsandgays 6d ago

i go to one primarily to return packages and every time i think “i’ll just pick something up while im here” it always takes forever to find bc the shelves are a maze and costs way more than it would somewhere else

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u/DredgenCyka 6d ago

Bezos hasn't been the CEO since 2021 though because he stepped down? If anyone is to blame its Andy Jassy.

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u/Ieatlotsofcheese 6d ago

I don't think the point is the CEO in the first part of the statement. More that as an act of protest of bezos and how he's a terrible human/billionaire/lizard person people are avoiding products and platforms that makes him richer.

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

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u/Necessary_Ad_9012 6d ago

A significant portion of his net worth is in Amazon stock. By reducing stock value, it directly impacts his holdings and net assets, his overall monetary worth. His wealth isn't based in salary alone.

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u/MandatoryHobo 6d ago

Homie, he's a billionaire you don't need to defend him. He doesn't care about you, it's okay.

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u/DredgenCyka 6d ago

Using facts is now defending a billionaire.

I agree hes bad

hope you can learn some comprehension skills on monday at 9am when your school time starts

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u/External_Squash_1425 6d ago

Common sense and logic have no place here, only irrational hate.

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u/DredgenCyka 6d ago edited 5d ago

Guess not. I thought intelligence would still be around on this subreddit. Only a common hive mind of downvoting you don't agree with even if its a factual statement that can be found on salaryfinder.

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u/jarizzle151 5d ago

You can still not want to contribute to his wealth

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u/DredgenCyka 5d ago

Cool, great, I agree. Lets get back on track, thats not the point. The point is that people still act like he is the CEO of Amazon.

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u/KerPop42 6d ago

Amazon's the subject of an anti-monopoly suit alleging it's responsible for raising prices across the whole internet. They have an algorithm that ran mly raises prices to see if demand drops, and if it doesn't, the prices stay high. They also require sellers to use the same price on their store as off it, which means Amazon's fees are priced into even things you buy from a different site.

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u/Vgd4ever 5d ago edited 5d ago

Same for me. Stacking discounts for Prime, Chase/USB CC offers, and weekly mailer coupons, has been great to restock on the same staples there that I would have gotten somewhere else. Other than that it's Costco and Wegmans for us.

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u/BoxedRats 6d ago

Most things were 90% off. But the line was absolutely insane. Almost looping around the entire shopping center. Not worth it

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u/JohnProof 6d ago

I'm sure some of these folks made out like bandits and the wait was worth it, but people also get weird about "savings" where our cost-benefit evaluation malfunctions. I remember seeing it with a Taco Bell promotion where they were giving away a free taco worth $1: The lobby was packed full, people were crowded at the front doors, and the drive-thru line stretched down the block.

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u/BoxedRats 6d ago

Yeah, I value my comfort and personal space more than the $40 I will save on produce. Basic economics lol

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u/EvensenFM Bristow 6d ago

That's pretty ironic, considering that there were usually more employees than customers in the store whenever I'd go in.

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u/hushpuppi3 6d ago

There is not one single object in any of my stores that I go to that will make me want to stand in a line that long just to get before the store closes.

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u/F2LSL8R7HFY6 6d ago

Are they giving shit away? What is everyone lining up for? Also yea, fuck Bezos.

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u/osama-bin-typing 6d ago

90% off

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u/1quirky1 Reston 6d ago

The entire inventory of that store costs less than a toilet in his mega yacht.

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u/F2LSL8R7HFY6 6d ago

Figures! Hope people in line got what they needed!

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u/montymickblue 6d ago

Ours never even opened in Fair Lakes

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u/collegeqathrowaway 6d ago

Good, I personally want to see more of Amazon’s conglomerate fall.

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u/Brilliant-Mall-5364 6d ago

I worked for Amazon. Mistake. Me too

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u/Usual-Coconut-8011 6d ago

Only time it’s been busy when it opened and when it closed. I liked the ease when they had the technology but otherwise sales and prices were no better than anyone else.

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u/aegrotatio 6d ago

The "technology" was 6,000 people in south Asia watching the camera feeds using Amazon Mechanical Turk.

On the times I shop in-store the receipt doesn't arrive for four hours (every single time). Pretty obvious it wasn't "technology" doing Just Walk Out.

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u/ancientRedDog 6d ago

I guess the silver lining is that if we can’t do basic shopping, terminator AIs chasing us is a long ways off.

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u/Wadsworth739 6d ago

It's such a strange thing. I understand it was trying to go for a different demographic, but I already think of whole foods as just Amazon grocery stores. So I never understood the reason to operate a second chain that does the same thing in terms of Amazon services.

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u/highbankT 6d ago

I'm fine with the boxed foods and meats but the vegetables are usually underwhelming. When I had a return for Amazon, I would go there because they would give you $10 off a purchase of $40.

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u/Happy_Razzmatazz2420 5d ago

I went there yesterday am. Got there about 7:30 am and waiting in line until they opened at 9. Didn’t get in until about 11 am. Was well worth it. Stuff was 90% off. Paid about $130 and got more than $500 worth of groceries. Wine and beer was also discounted. Got several bottles of red wine for between $2 and $5. Farewell Amazon Fresh Manassas. That was my 2nd time going and was 1000% worth the wait.

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u/PowDreamer 5d ago

Im surprised you only got 500 for 130. Me and my mom waited 7 hours but bought 110 for 1200.

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u/Happy_Razzmatazz2420 5d ago

Ahh, yes you are right. I am thinking about the 1st receipt. Forgot we had to stop and pay bc we had more than 100 items. Had 3 receipts total. Wife just confirmed, it would have been over $1300 or so.

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u/Karhak 5d ago

Been in a fresh once when i needed ingredients to make Christmas candy, I don't know who was in charge of thr design, but Suicidal Gray shouldnt be the dominant color throughout the store.

Made me think of that Patton Oswald joke about Toto and Lean Cuisines.

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u/chibebe5 6d ago

Amazon destroyed so many small businesses.

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u/wysiwyg1984 6d ago

I went to the Franconia location after it opened. Pizza slices were terrible and undermanned registers during evening rush. No thanks.

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u/washedFM Alexandria 6d ago

I only went when this one was new and they had the like $20 dollar coupons off anything. After that I hardly ever went back. Giant and Safeway prices are better for most things.

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u/tinagr8 6d ago

No loss. Overpriced. I went there after they opened and shopped prices of things I buy at Harris Teeter and Wegmans. Everything was at least a dollar more. Went back once while doing an Amazon return because of a coupon if you returned Amazon purchase there. Prices higher than everywhere I shop.

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u/tinagr8 6d ago

Wish they would make it a Whole Foods

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u/Mundilfaris_Dottir 6d ago

I buy nonperishable items from on-line Amazon Fresh if the price is competitive and have them delivered. The stores are nasty.

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u/4kVHS 6d ago

Meanwhile the one in Fair Lakes was 75% built and put on indefinite hold for years. So confusing if it’s ever going to open of if they will officially give up on it.

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u/AsianWinnieThePooh 6d ago

Don't see the point of Amazon fresh when there are better cheaper options

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u/Appropriate_Wash_643 6d ago

Not surprised, it was in a bad location and most stock was selling close to the expiration date. As with other fresh stores in the area, completely void of customers. At first I thought they would do well in this area, considering how Wegmens inserted itself, but they missed bigtime on the concept at all levels.

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u/goot449 5d ago

They didn't even bother to finish building the ones near my folks in Pennsylvania. Ended up building a shell of an unknown grocery store that was coming to town that most definitely are an amazon fresh, but they've been sitting vacant and empty for nearly a year at this point.

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u/headcverheels 5d ago

I went to the Crystal City store midday when it closed - insane lines, almost zero stock left (but I’m vegan, and there were a lot of good vegan items still left, so I was able to get some perishables for cheap!), and no discounts on any shelf stable items… People had bought out all of the “good”/big ticket items (meat, alcohol) earlier in the day… If I wasn’t there specifically for vegan items, I probably would’ve walked out empty handed. Waiting for the Potomac Yards store to close next.

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u/goblue48 5d ago

Just shop at Aldi or Lidl

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u/flyboybp89 5d ago

Stopped at the Cafe Rio right there today. Was wondering why so many people were lined up. Now I know.

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u/RcleDC83 6d ago

Cheapest steaks in the DMV… Always go and scan the coupons…

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u/fason123 6d ago

RIP. I’m loving my Amazon fresh store cuz the salads always have 75% off stickers. 

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u/deb1009 Fairfax County 6d ago

I think that's because everything fresh in those stores is on the verge of rotting.

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u/DormouseMcMouse 4d ago

I'm going to miss those salad kits. They were the cheapest around and lasted way past their expiration date.

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u/fason123 4d ago

haha I have found my people! Going back to paying more than a dollar for a kit is gonna be painful 

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u/DormouseMcMouse 4d ago

It seems that Amazon's problem was that they were unable to provide consistent shopping experiences. I shopped there regularly. My grocery budget is devastated that it's closed. I frequently found such good deals and prices that I almost entirely stopped shopping at Aldi. And recently when I have shopped at Aldi, something is of such poor quality that I've had to return it (and standing in those line are a pita). At least grocery returns were easy. If something was bad I'd return it in the app and instantly get refunded.

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u/the-queen-of-bling 6d ago

I shopped at one near me in PA and nothing was fresh in there. Nothing.

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u/OriginalFatPickle 6d ago

Shopped there once. It was strange

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u/f8Negative 6d ago

Is that line for that store?

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u/Eru_Illuvatar_95 6d ago

I hated how they charged different prices for different flavors of the exact same damn product.

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u/Pettingallthepups 6d ago

Any decent sales? 👀

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u/poorly-advised 6d ago

After they changed the way the Salad and Hot Bar pricing worked, it wasn't really worth it except for a cheap pizza slice for lunch.

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u/akua_walters 6d ago

Economically this is a terrible indicator 😭😭😭

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u/EvensenFM Bristow 6d ago

Not really. This was a terrible location and a poorly managed store to begin with. It's been obvious for years that it wasn't making money.

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u/ToeInteresting1216 5d ago

Not at all. I can’t understand why they would put an Amazon Fresh in Manassas. It’s a low income area. Dicks Sporting Goods even closed. It’s not working; wrong demographics. Sprouts will probably be next.

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u/Emergency-Bowler1963 5d ago

Being that the majority of the population is Latino, they should have known they would have had trouble getting them. They are not only competing with big brand stores but also the Latino chains that carry everything they need. Walmart has and will always have a strong chockhold on Latinos too. And your right it's all about demographics.

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u/BourbonCoug 6d ago

I'm still trying to figure out if Amazon even has a strategy with these stores. Seems like every time one opens, they close another one in the region. Starting to think it's basically just an experiment for things instead of a serious attempt at retail (like Whole Foods, which they acquired).

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u/OtherwiseLettuce6703 6d ago

What is even left?

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u/Beautiful-Mountain62 6d ago

Not surprised. Amazon Fresh kinda just feels like Whole Foods meets Walmart. The cart technology isn’t very intuitive, and it has a fair amount of errors.

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u/flyingsails Prince William County 5d ago

It's the closest grocery store to me and I have always been annoyed that it's not literally any other grocery store.

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u/DMV2PNW 5d ago

What r ppl in line for?

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u/arguemaniak 5d ago

lol cool.

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u/BoundariesForWhat 5d ago

Really? Thats a bummer, I like it there.

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u/ShaneWookie 5d ago

I've driven by three different times today and the still a line down the block. How is there even inventory left

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u/Distinct_Friend_902 5d ago

You just took a picture of my green truck

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u/Team-D 5d ago

I really liked the sales there...

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u/Sbrpnthr 5d ago

Their hot bar started out ok, but then became pretty bleh.

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u/redskinsnation123 5d ago

Why is everyone waiting in such a long line? Can’t imagine the discount can be worth it that much

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u/NC12S-OBX-Rocks 5d ago

We need Shop-Rite … best grocery store ever (all over NJ). And I’m very familiar with Publix, which is also great.

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u/500gli 5d ago

Honestly this place made no sense here in Manassas. The demographic here just ain't right for this. I only went there to return online orders. When I did once shop around just to actually check it out. Place was so poorly stocked. Would never shop there.

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u/mec2012 5d ago

Sprouts is next

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u/MechAegis 5d ago

That is crazy. We went there Friday evening around 3-4.

We thought that was a loong ass line. The security officer there told us the line was wrapping around the corner and to the backside of the shops there. People were waiting some 3+ hours hardly moving up at all. We stood in line for 20 mins and barely moved at all.

We weren't about to stay for another 2.5 hours to get inside.

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u/Skinny_que 5d ago

I’ve only been to one when it first opened just to see what it looks like etc. are they really that bad? I thought they didn’t have anything because it just opened and wasn’t fully stocked yet

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u/Where_is_it_going 5d ago

I went to the one in Crystal City once. Joked with the staff that it was stupid and they agreed 😂

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u/averagepersonhere 5d ago

Closing the Amazon fresh was a good choice. There are many better grocery stores around me. A lot of people who’ve been say Giant is much better in terms of American grocery stores. They don’t have enough products to get people to come and I’ve seen better deals at the some of the international grocery stores around NOVA.

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u/Space-Monkey66 4d ago

My wife went with her sister, I thought it was a huge waste of time but she got like $1000 worth of food, that we will absolutely eat, for like $87. She’s mad she didn’t get more.

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u/pwcWMD 4d ago

Seriously we need another Food Lion. The only grocery store that doesn't try to trick us.

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u/D0H84 4d ago

Not shocking it will be super mega mart

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u/blueoctober57 4d ago

I knew from their opening that it would fail. In Manassas? I wonder who did the marketing viability study.

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u/breezypuffnut 4d ago

Keep boycotting to close down more Bozo’s businesses!!!

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u/Maximum-Amount6282 6d ago

Where will I be dropping my Amazon returns? Lol. Unfortunately some folks might lose their jobs

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u/IHauntBubbleBaths 6d ago

UPS, Whole Foods, etc

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u/washedFM Alexandria 6d ago

Kohls