Amazon to shut its bookstores and other shops as its grocery chain expands
             
            
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        Amazon.com Inc said on Wednesday it plans to close all 68 of its brick-and-mortar bookstores, pop-ups and shops carrying toys and home goods in the United States and United Kingdom, ending some of its longest-running retail experiments.
 
      
      
    
      