Amazon stock rose by 3.06% to trade at $1,943.78 by 15:52 (19:52 GMT) on Thursday on the NASDAQ exchange. The volume of Amazon.com shares traded since the start of the session was 4.85M. Amazon.com has traded in a range of $1,889.99 to $1,944.64 on the day.
The stock has traded at $1,957.0000 at its highest and $1,745.0000 at its lowest during the past seven days.
E-commerce behemoth Amazon continues to cultivate its brick-and-mortar footprint. It was reported Wednesday that the company had submitted winning bids for leases on two New Jersey grocery stores. The locations, previously part of the region's well-recognized (and now bankrupt) Fairway Market chain, could be rebranded as either Whole Foods Markets or as supermarket-size versions of its Amazon Go convenience stores, which are cashierless operations that feature grab-and-go foods.