A day after announcing that its online learning platform for Indian high school students would be shutting down, Amazon Inc. said on Friday that it would discontinue a food delivery service it was testing in the country.
The firm said that Amazon Food, a venture it was testing in Bengaluru, a city in southern India, would be discontinued.
“As part of our annual operating planning review process, we have made the decision to discontinue Amazon Food,” a company spokesperson told Reuters.
“We don’t take these decisions lightly. We are discontinuing these programs in a phased manner to take care of current customers and partners.”
In a previous article, The Economic Times reported a communication from the company to its restaurant partners as confirmation that the operation will end from December 29 onwards.
Amazon said on Thursday that it was closing the Amazon Academy platform in India, which it had introduced at the beginning of last year amid a surge in online education brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to reports, the e-commerce giant wants to lay off about 10,000 people in corporate and technological areas as a result of the macroeconomic situation being unclear.
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