But a company spokeswoman, Laura Hayes, said the advertisements “aren’t really accurate sources of information for our jobs.” He said Amazon Fresh will open between six and eight locations in Connecticut initially.Īmazon has been scouting for locations in Connecticut since 2019, according to The Wall Street Journal.Īdvertisements have been showing up on Google searches in the past two days indicating that Amazon Fresh is hiring. The average annual income within a 3-mile radius of the Orange Meadows Shopping Center is $117,835, according to the Greenwich-based Urstadt Biddle Properties, which owns the retail center.īut Flickinger said because Interstate 95 runs through Orange, Amazon Fresh could be a much wider draw, from families headed off to vacation or coming back from one, as well as for daily commuters. “Amazon Fresh is always looking for well-heeled areas to serve.” “Demographically speaking, Orange would be a great location,” Flickinger said. And farther north on Boston Post Road, near the West Haven line, is an Amazon warehouse.įlickinger said Amazon Fresh has employed a similar strategy in stores it has opened in a suburb west of Chicago, where the chain already has one store and is in the process of opening a second. Slightly farther south on Boston Post Road, just across the border in Milford, is Whole Foods, another retailer in Amazon’s burgeoning grocery empire. And there is a Costco less than a mile south on Boston Post Road. Trader Joe’s has a store in the Orange Meadows Shopping Center across Peck Lane from the shopping plaza that Raymour & Flanigan owns. Flickinger said that “whenever they can, Amazon Fresh likes to locate its stores as close as possible to a Trader Joe’s, or a Costco or a BJ’s.”
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