Jeff Bezos to NY Post: Your sources' meds are off

SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon's standard response to requests about anonymously-sourced stories is that it doesn't comment on rumors.

Someone forgot to tell CEO Jeff Bezos that.

On Tuesday he shot off a tweet at the New York Post over a story it published Sunday on Amazon's supposed plans for a parsimoniously-staffed automated grocery story.

"Whoever your anonymous sources are on this story  – they’ve mixed up their meds!" tweeted Bezos.

The story, by Post writer Josh Kosman, described a two-story, automated grocery store that used the same type of grab-and-go convenience store plan Amazon is currently prototyping in Seattle but with a larger range of items, many of which would be gathered and packaged by robots for shoppers to carry out.

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The story was based entirely on unnamed sources "briefed on the plans," Kosman wrote, adding that it would require as few as three and no more than 10 workers at any one time, a huge cost savings in the highly labor intensive supermarket field.

Kosman said " we are standing by our story."

Reached for comment, an Amazon spokesman said the company disagreed completely with the New York Post story, calling it "fiction."

Amazon had no immediate comment — beyond Bezos'.