Amazon Fresh Leaving Northern Virginia Markets: Report

WASHINGTON, DC — Grocery deliveries through the Amazon Fresh service will stop in several markets, including northern Virginia, and Maryland, at the end of the month, according to reports. Users were notified via email today.

Amazon Fresh allows people to buy their groceries online and have them delivered. It costs $14.99 a month and is only available to Amazon Prime members. The delivery service will stop serving some Maryland and northern Virginia neighborhoods at the end of November, according to Reuters.

AmazonFresh has been delivering to areas such as Reston, Oakton, McLean, Fairfax, Arlington, Annandale, Alexandria, Burke, Springfield, Fort Washington, Woodbridge, Dale City, Suitland, and more.

The announcement that the service would be ending in Maryland meant that the grocery delivery service had a short life in the Free State; Amazon Fresh had just launched in Maryland in January. But service will continue in Baltimore, Washington D.C., and 11 other major metros, Bloomberg News says.

Several customers took to Twitter to ask Amazon to stay.

"I would like to know too why AmazonFresh is leaving my area (in Silver Spring Maryland). We depended on the deliveries!" another said from Montgomery County.

"I buy virtually all of my groceries from Amazon Fresh. MUCH better service than FreshDirect, PeaPod, etc. Bummed," added a consumer in the D.C.-Baltimore metro area.

Reuters reported that the decision to pull out of some markets was unrelated to the acquisition of Whole Foods by Amazon. Service will stop in Maryland after Nov. 30, according to the news service.

Those in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia will continue to have access to Amazon Fresh, according to Tech Crunch, which reported the areas where the service would be discontinued included not-as-large cities in California, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

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