We've reached the endgame: Bezos 'in talks' to turn shuttered department stores into Amazon warehouses

The Register ^ | 10 Aug 2020 | Shaun Nichols

[Salman]

Amazon is reportedly in talks with realtors to buy and remake the US locations of bankrupt Sears and JC Penney into Amazon fulfillment centers.

The Wall Street Journal cites sources familiar in reporting that Simon Property Group, a commercial retailer specializing in mall locations, was in talks with the Bezos' bunch to sell the now-vacant department store buildings. These will then be used as smaller, local versions warehouses for Amazon to store products before shipping out to customers.

Neither Amazon nor Simon Property Group responded to a request for comment on the report.

Those unfamiliar with the 1970s-1990s heyday of Sears and JC Penney will be forgiven for not understanding just what a seismic shift this deal reflects in American society. It is basically the equivalent of vanquishing your foe and turning his or her castle into horse stables.

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[usconservative]

We begin to lose words and names pretty quick so I have been depending on my wife but she is getting old too so we depend on internet searches to help us out.

Three ischemic strokes have been whittling away at my ability to speak sentences and find the right words to say. What amazes me is that I can type them out like I am now just fine. I don't understand that but hey, it is what it is.

Good luck on your retirement and plan and do what is best for you, the rest of the cr@p going on around us is just noise, learn to tune it out. Don't watch news, be selective even here and don't let all the things you can't control get to you, let the kids worry about it, they created this mess.

Thanks. I'm learning to tune a lot of things out. Kids. News. GF. Family. The more I tune out the happier I seem to be! The only one I really seem to care about anymore is the dog and hey, it's not even my dog, it's the neighbors and I'm just dogsitting!

At least I still have my sense of humor. Hopefully that gets me through to the next life and then me 'n Jesus are likely going to have a long, long chat. That is as soon as I'm done crying at his feet for 10,000 years.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Are you talking about amazon orders that 1) Are not "Amazon Prime" and 2) have "free shipping?"

If you pay for shipping on non-Amazon-Prime orders it will be faster, but shipping charges can make a difference. Last month, if I had ordered my printer from Amazon instead of buying it at Walmart, the total cost including shipping would have been a lot more. If I had found a printer with "free shipping," who knows how long that would have taken.

Maybe Amazon will open retail stores to compete with walmart.

[itsahoot]

Are you talking about amazon orders that 1) Are not "Amazon Prime"

Amazon Prime, I only order non prime if I absolutely have to have an item and then only if shipping is free.

Prime is a good deal not unlike Sam's or Costco except you get free Prime Video. Even Sprint offers free Hulu with no data limit. Granted it is free with commercials but add about 5 bucks and get it without commercials. Have kids or you travel much get an iPhone or an iPad with data plan and you have unlimited TV available, all current tv shows but a day later than live.

If it is an item I must have I can usually find it on eBay and shipping is murderous there, only a few sellers offer free shipping, but if I have to have it, c'est la vie.

[itsahoot]

That is as soon as I'm done crying at his feet for 10,000 years.

There is a great song that remind me off. "When You've been There 10,000 Years, Look for Me Because I Will Be There Too. Someone on the Gaither Group used to sing that don't remember the title but that was the chorus line. Just checked and Title is "Look For Me" Tanya Goodman Sykes performed it for them.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

I agree. The specific category I was talking about is “free shipping” outside Amazon Prime.