amazoncom inc chief executive andy jassy has vowed to double down on the ecommerce giants struggling grocery store business the financial times reported on monday jassy blamed a lack of normalcy during the pandemic for a series of stumbles and said the company was ready to go big on bricksandmortar stores the report added amazon did not immediately respond to a reuters request for comment the company has paused expansion of its fresh supermarkets and cashierless convenience stores until it finds the right recipe for success jassy said in a rare appearance on the companys quarterly results call earlier this month advt jassys remarks show how amazon which just a year ago said it would close its bookstores to focus on grocery has yet to dominate brickandmortar retail since its closely watched acquisition of whole foods market in 2017 for the time being the company has closed some grocery shops and impaired certain assets it took a 720 million charge from such actions in the fourth quarter its chief financial officer said earlier this month reuters published on feb 14 2023 at 0802 am ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etretail app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app amazon grocery amazon amazon ceo grocery retail offline retail grocery stores homenewsamazon ceo doubles down on grocery store business ft