Jeff Bezos
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. (GeekWire File Photo)

As owner of The Washington Post, Jeff Bezos is clearly a fan of newspapers. But the Amazon CEO let it be known on Twitter today that not all media properties meet his exacting standards.

Bezos took a shot at the New York Post for a story which ran on Sunday and was billed as a “business exclusive.” Under the headline “Inside Amazon’s robot-run supermarket that needs just 3 human workers,” the Post cited anonymous sources in detailing what it called a “futuristic prototype” for grocery shopping coming from the Seattle tech giant.

Bezos tweeted at the Post and said that the paper’s anonymous sources, whomever they might be, “mixed up their meds!” The tweet brought with it the illustration that the Post used on its story — a 7-armed robotic Bezos charging up the aisle of a grocery store with products in his hands.

The Post’s report said that Amazon Go convenience stores — of which there is one in Seattle currently going through the testing phase — are just the beginning for the company as bigger, two-level grocery stores are in the works. Sources “briefed on the plans” gave the Post details such as how many items would be stocked, how many employees would be needed and how robots would grab and bag items on the top floor.

The story even speculated on how the prototype stores being discussed call for “operating profit margins north of 20 percent.”

“Amazon will utilize technology to minimize labor,” read a quote attributed to “a source close to the situation.”

That revelation is not new. GeekWire reported in early December on how technology will reshape physical retail and what that could mean for supermarket checkers, among others.

The Post said that its sources “cautioned that the prototype is still in the early stages, and that it hasn’t received a final nod.” And an Amazon spokesman did tell the newspaper that its story was not correct, adding, “We have no plans to build such a store.”

Consider Bezos’s tweet a follow-up to that official comment.

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