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Department stores in malls across the US — struggling to stay in business as shoppers increasingly turn to e-commerce — could soon be transformed into Amazon fulfillment centers.
Amazon is in talks with Simon Property Group, America’s biggest mall owner, to turn empty retail space into Amazon warehouses that process and ship online orders, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. More
For pennies on the dollar I am sure. A little difference between a warehouse and a store that needs to make you want to buy.
I think the empty retail spaces should be utilized for protest detainees. Round them up like cattle and run them through the processing chute. All out of state protestors are detained for arraignment.
I remember folks scoffing at the name ‘Amazon’ when they first started selling books.
empty retail space? … make some nice ‘home school’, ‘charter school’ classrooms …. bigger classes, more kids … maybe a nice PDT tax break?
@LCD – Would that be Penny’s on the dollar? 🙂
Empty malls can become looter traps. Fill them up with fake stores with lots of glitzy products. Wait for the Orcs to raid the place. Lock them in. Leave them there for a year with no food and only water from the restrooms.
At the end of the year, arrest who’s left and put them in prison for life.
A mall near me was razed two years ago. Then the infrastructure in the area began to vastly improve.
Today there sits a HUGE bright shiny new Amazon distribution center.
Roll on, acres, roll on.
WOW! Great comments! Great ideas!
@TheMule–Superb!
I see lots of empty commercial spaces around. The idea of converting to mini-schools is a good one. In a fair world that would happen before September. I once re-fitted a small restaurant as a day care center. Worked for me!
Trade schools and Indoor swim/diving classes.
Ironic, since Sears, and later JC Penney were the original “On-Line” retailers.
flip
AUGUST 12, 2020 AT 1:58 PM
“A mall near me was razed two years ago. Then the infrastructure in the area began to vastly improve.
Today there sits a HUGE bright shiny new Amazon distribution center.
Roll on, acres, roll on.”
…guessing you mean this…
https://youtu.be/Nv_8jLBX-2k
…I have a location for Amazon. Been kept up, big enough for ALL their crap.
…you COULD say it’s one-stop shopping for them…
https://youtu.be/It6_08i1r38
TheMule
AUGUST 12, 2020 AT 1:50 PM
“Empty malls can become looter traps. Fill them up with fake stores with lots of glitzy products. Wait for the Orcs to raid the place. Lock them in. Leave them there for a year with no food and only water from the restrooms.”
…how ’bout get a 2 level mall, do what you say on the LOWER level…but after it’s filled and locked, open the UPPER level for shooting enthusiast, you know, like the viewing galley in old Laser Tag places, but a whole MALL (again, Forest Fair, above, would work for this) BUT with live ammo.
You can bring handguns, shotguns, bows, crossbows…anything with a projectile, BUT no 50 cal or grenades because we don’t want to create an escape hole anywhere.
Open up gun and ammo stores on the upper level, and photo and video stores if you want a memento of your kills.
And, a purple and green laser store for the kiddies, they can play all DAY at blinding Democrats to make ’em more CHALLENGING for Mom and Dad as they run around unpredictably in a literal blind rage!
And, have an Antifa Medic room, maybe an old mall Police Substation for the irony value, where you have drug crazed BLM members rape and stab the “medics” and hit them with ice bottles, then enjoy their antic attempts to fix the damage with Band Aids and eyewash! Have a furnace nearby, though, so special teams can periodically throw them in it before they finish bleeding out, so they can start feeling the flames of hell they’ve justly earned for their treason BEFORE they die, so we can enjoy their writhing death struggles!
…but give the survivors in the MAIN mall a retreat with automatic doors, though, so they can temporarily hide while rats and hogs are released to eat their fallen comrades, just to keep the plave tidy. You ALSO find out who’s playing “Possum” then, and send in the REAL possums to eat THEM.
But when the bones are stripped, the rats are withdrawn, then the doors open, electrical charges run the Democrats out again, everyone returns to the firing line, and TALLY HO!!!
…import fresh as needed, until there are no more communist in the WORLD.
..it could work…
^^^ maybe ranged, edged weapons at our Democrat hunting preserve too, like spears, axes, knives, and shuriken, as long as you understand you’re not getting them BACK. Could open a store for these, too, but spears would have to have Indian style bindings on them that come apart in the bloody body and leave the tip in to make it harder to throw back…also, you’ll have to employ highly skilled zoo snipers, like the one that got Harambe, just in case one of those noodle-arms TRIES to throw anything back…
JC Penny’s just became the LAST tenant in our local mall – and they announced THEY’RE leaving!
Amazon can have a whole MALL to itself!