A new Amazon Fresh supermarket will open in Citrus Heights early next month, its third site in Northern California, the retailer announced.
The 38,000-square-foot supermarket at 5425 Sunrise Blvd., in the Sunrise Village shopping center, is slated to open Nov. 7.
It joins the retailer’s first Northern California site on Stanford Ranch Road in Roseville and at The Ridge retail center in Elk Grove, which opened to customers in September. The new store will tout the brick-and-mortar design that debuted last year at stores in Southern California and Chicago, officials said Thursday.
Store hours will be 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., seven days a week.
Amazon Fresh’s offerings range from national brands to local and regional selections to grab-and-go and delicatessen-style selections.
The Fresh store concept features voice-activated Alexa features, such as Ask Alexa, which helps shoppers find store items; app-aided shopping; and Amazon Dash Cart, which allows shoppers to bypass checkout lines. Same-day delivery and pick-up are also available.
“We have many different customers with many different needs, and we want to save them time and money so they can focus on what matters most,” Griffin Buch, an Amazon spokesperson, said in a statement Thursday.
The flurry of store openings in August, September and now, the announced Nov. 7 date, come after a year or more of stalled expansion plans. The brick-and-mortar Roseville and Elk Grove sites were set to open in 2023, before plans came to a halt.
But Amazon restarted its development plans with eyes on Sunrise Village, The Bee previously reported.
On Thursday, Buch said the retail giant “remains committed to grocery,” with plans to open new Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market locations.
“We ... will selectively open new Amazon Fresh stores as we see positive customer feedback on the new format, as well as continue to open new Whole Foods Market stores,” he said.
One more location already constructed as a future Amazon Fresh, but yet to be announced as opening, is at the former Walmart store in Arden Arcade’s Country Club Centre. The shopping center on the southwest corner of Watt and El Camino avenues features a Costco business center location.
The retailer also said Thursday it would donate surplus food to the Sacramento Food Bank.
Amazon Fresh opened its first location in Woodland Hills in September 2020 and has since been joined by more than 40 locations in California, Illinois, New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Washington state and New Jersey, as well as the Washington, D.C., area.
This story was originally published October 24, 2024, 10:34 AM.
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Darrell Smith is The Sacramento Bee’s Equity Lab reporter covering issues important to the Black community and diverse voices in the capital region. He joined The Bee in 2006 and previously worked at newspapers in Palm Springs, Colorado Springs and Marysville. Smith was born and raised at Beale Air Force Base and lives in Elk Grove.