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PLYMOUTH - WAYNE
PLYMOUTH - WAYNE

Township welcomes latest Amazon Fresh market

Shopping for groceries will be cery shopping can use a cart and ” planned in Michigan, according
a futuristic experience at the check out with a cashier using to business reports.
planned Amazon Fresh grocery cash or credit. For those seeking Even more independent shopping is provided Heise said that he and other
store in Plymouth Township. a more futuristic approach, the with the Just Walk Out technology. township officials approved the
Last week, Plymouth store provides Dash Carts and plans for the new market which
Township Supervisor Kurt Heise shoppers use the QR code on the is located near the new $90 mil-
confirmed that the new retail Amazon app. Sensors track items lion Henry Ford Hospital facility
store under construction at the placed in or removed from the on Ann Arbor Road near
corner of Ann Arbor and cart which also has a built-in ping is provided with the Just According to the Amazon Haggerty.
Haggerty roads will be an scale and screen so shoppers can Walk Out technology, the main Fresh website, the stores offer “We are hoping that Amazon
Amazon Fresh market. While the review purchases. When shop- objective of Amazon Fresh stores sales, order ahead for pickup Fresh is going to tap into this pro-
new technology may not appeal ping is complete, patrons simply for seamless shopping. Shoppers service and other items in addi- fessional and affluent clientele
to everyone, the 40 Amazon exit through the Amazon Dash enter the store by scanning a QR tion to groceries. that are going to be working and
Fresh locations in the country Cart Lane and the card linked to code on the Amazon App using Another Amazon Fresh is living in the Ann Arbor Road and
are flourishing. To shop at shopper's Amazon account is their phone, connected to an reportedly opening in Dearborn Haggerty corridor,” Heise said.
Amazon Fresh, patrons will need charged. Receipts are emailed to Amazon account or credit card at the same time as the Plymouth The construction is under way
the Amazon app on a phone. customers. which allows shoppers to skip Township location is operational. next to the LA Fitness which
Those seeking traditional gro- Even more independent shop- the checkout line completely. There are several other locations anchors the shopping area.
Plymouth District Library

awarded prestigious honor

The Plymouth District Library has Journal is an important marker that
joined an elite state group. demonstrates the value that our commu-
The Main Street facility in downtown nity places on public library service," said
Plymouth has been named a Star Library Shauna Anderson, library director.
in the 15th Edition of Library Journal "Timing for this news is especially exciting
Index of Public Library Service. The as the library enters its 100th year serving
Index rates U.S. public libraries based on the Plymouth community."
selected per capita output measures, offi- View the 2022 Index of Public Library
cials noted. The 2022 scores and ratings Service list of Star libraries for 2022 at
are based on fiscal year 20 data from the https://www.libraryjournal.com/page/star-
Institute of Museum and Library Services libraries-2022.
(IMLS) Public Library
Survey. For 2022-based
on 2020 data-5,359 public
libraries received LJ
Index scores, and 258 of
them received Stars.
Only 20 Michigan
libraries have ever
received Star designa-
tions in the index and Young Santa
Plymouth District
Library is one of only 12 Students at Taft Galloway Elementary School in Wayne had their very own Santa
libraries in Michigan to this year when second-grade student Derrick Howard adopted every one of his
make the list for 2022. schoolmates for the holiday. To ensure all of his peers received a gift for the holi-
"In the world of days, Howard and his mother collected donations, shopped, selected and sorted
libraries, Star designa- the gifts and presented each student with an early Christmas present.
tion from Library