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Amazon Fresh Will Make Illinois Debut in Naperville This Week

Amazon said Friday it would open its first Amazon Fresh grocery store in Illinois on Dec. 10 in Naperville. The 35,000-square-location at 3116 S. Rt. 59 will be the fifth Amazon Fresh store nationally and the first outside California.

Other Chicagoland stores are planned for Bloomingdale, Oak Lawn and Schaumburg. Amazon plans to hire 1,500 in Chicagoland, but didn’t reveal opening dates for those stores.

Amazon said in a statement that the Naperville store was supporting the community with “hundreds of high-paying local jobs… We’re also supporting the Naperville community by donating surplus food from the Amazon Fresh store to local food banks.”

The Seattle-based retailing giant introduced its first Amazon Fresh grocery store in Woodland Hills, CA in August. It describes the concept as “designed from the ground up to offer a seamless grocery shopping experience, whether customers are shopping in-store or online.”

Pictured: Amazon Fresh store in Woodland Hills, CA.

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Paul Bubny serves as Senior Content Director for Connect Commercial Real Estate, a role to which he brings 16-plus years’ experience covering the commercial real estate industry and 30-plus years in business-to-business journalism. In this capacity, he oversees daily operations while also reporting on both local/regional markets and national trends, covering individual transactions across all property types, as well as delving into broader subject matter. He produces 7-10 daily news stories per day and works with the Connect team and clients to develop longer-form content, ranging from Q&As to thought-leadership pieces. Prior to joining Connect, Paul was Managing Editor for both Real Estate Forum and GlobeSt.com at American Lawyer Media, where he oversaw operations at both publications while also producing daily news and feature-length articles. His tenure in B2B publishing stretches back into the print era, and he has served as Editor in Chief on four national trade publications. Since 1999, Paul has volunteered as the newsletter editor of passenger rail advocacy groups (one national, one local).

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