Amazon has 10 Amazon Go stores in Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle.
Resolved true The record shows it happened or was so.
Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.
What would count as true or false
True: in about April 2019, Amazon operated 10 Amazon Go stores, located in Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle. Mostly true: the count was 9 or 11, or there was a small difference in which cities had stores. Mostly false: the count was well off (for example 5 or 20), or there were stores in major other cities the claim leaves out. False: there was no such store network at that size.
Set before the research began.
Evidence (4)
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E1 Amazon Go to Accept Cash Supermarket News (WGB) · 10 April 2019
“There are currently 10 Amazon Go stores split between Seattle, Chicago and San Francisco, with more on the way.”
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E2 Amazon Pressured Into Accepting Cash at Cashless Go Stores Yahoo Finance · 16 April 2019
“As it stands now, four Go stores are located in Seattle, four are in Chicago, and two are in San Francisco, with a third arriving soon.”
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E3 Amazon adds to physical retail footprint with latest Go store Supermarket News (WGB) · 19 April 2019
“Moving ahead with its brick-and-mortar expansion, Amazon.com Inc. this week opened a new Amazon Go cashierless store in San Francisco, its 11th overall.”
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E4 Amazon Go secures space in the heart of London Retail Dive · 15 February 2019
“Currently there are just 10 Amazon Go stores stateside. Most are clustered in the same city, with four in its original location of Seattle, two in San Francisco and four in Chicago.”
Reasoning
E1 is an independent trade report dated 2019-04-10, the day before the claim. It says there were 10 Amazon Go stores split between Seattle, Chicago and San Francisco. E2 (2019-04-16) and E4 (2019-02-15) give the breakdown as four in Seattle, four in Chicago and two in San Francisco, which adds up to 10. E3 reports an 11th store opening in San Francisco the week of April 19, after the date of the claim, so the count of 10 was correct as of 2019-04-11.
Cite this claim
Jeff Bezos, “Amazon has 10 Amazon Go stores in Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle.” (said 11 April 2019). Verdict: resolved true. Reliability API, claim c_05bf36faa94f, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_05bf36faa94f
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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