The first location will be in Los Angeles later in 2019, but the company plans to launch dozens in shopping malls in major U.S. cities, according to sources. The new stores would offer a wider selection of products than Amazon-owned Whole Foods. Meanwhile, Amazon is cancelling sales of its Dash buttons, which automatically reordered the types of common household products one would buy in a grocery store. Also Friday, a group of New York business and political leaders asked the company to reconsider its plans to pull out of the city, though the likelihood of that appears limited. (Wall Street Journal, New York Times, BBC)

Talking point: Amazon is increasingly focused on retail stores. The company has 10 cashierless Amazon Go stores in the U.S., and is testing the technology—which automatically charges shoppers for any items they leave the store with—for bigger retail stores. Amazon’s ambitions aren’t limited to grocery shopping, according to The Wall Street Journal’s sources. The company is also looking at selling beauty products in its stores, and wants some control over parking lots to encourage customers to pick-up products quickly.