New Murrieta Amazon Fresh Store Seeking 'Hundreds' Of Employees

MURRIETA, CA — The very first Amazon Fresh grocery store in Riverside County is getting closer to opening, although an exact date is still under wraps by the Seattle-based retail giant.

This week the company announced it was doing a massive hiring blitz for six new Southern California Just Walk Out-enabled Amazon Fresh locations, including the Murrieta store at 40481 Murrieta Hot Springs Road inside the Murrieta Town Center shopping complex at the Interstate 215 interchange.

In total, more than 1,500 full- and part-time employees are being sought for the new stores that also include La Verne, Mission Viejo, Moorpark, Huntington Beach and Westlake Village, according to Amazon.

At the Murrieta location, pay starts at $16.40 an hour and new hires will begin working as early as Feb. 17, according to signs on the big-box store's doors and windows that were completely papered up Tuesday.

A company spokesperson said no official opening date for the Murrieta store was being shared, yet.

The amazonstores.jobs site showed five job listings for the Murrieta location, but the Amazon spokesperson said those are job titles and many, many people will be hired in each of those categories.

"Our Murrieta store will employ hundreds of employees," the spokesperson said.

According to this week's news announcement from the company, "Grocery associates will learn everything from customer service, to stocking shelves, to cashiering, to picking and packing customer orders. Food-service associates work in the store’s culinary area, preparing delicious, fresh food offerings for customers each day."

Murrieta Mayor Jonathan Ingram said he is looking forward to the store's opening.

“We’re so excited to welcome the first Amazon Fresh store to Murrieta and to Riverside County,” Ingram said. “Not only will this new store provide members of our community with a convenient, quality, and well-priced grocery option close to home, but it will also create hundreds of jobs right here in Murrieta.”

Amazon Fresh offers in-store and online shopping. The Just Walk Out option lets customers shop for the groceries they want and skip the checkout lines using the company's Just Walk Out technology.