Amazon created a concrete shortage

[MossRoad]

What does an empty mall have to do with Amazon distribution?

I think the point trying to be made is that all retailers come and go and leave huge empty buildings behind eventually. They are predicting Amazon will be no different in X years (no one knows when).

 

[ruffdog]

Malls, k-marts, shopco, jc penney, Montgomery Wards, sears, radio shack, toys r us, ........lots of things change...and will continue to change.

 

[milkman636]

All those stores that have been mentioned lasted more than a lifetime. So maybe Amazon has another 60+/- years before it goes defunct too? It’s probably a little premature to worry about what happens to the building after it closes.

 

[seville009]

What does an empty mall have to do with Amazon distribution?

a better question is.....what DOESN'T it have to do with Amazon. Look closely and think hard......

 

[jyoutz]

a better question is.....what DOESN'T it have to do with Amazon. Look closely and think hard......

It has nothing to do with Amazon failing and abandoning their distribution center.

 

[jyoutz]

I think the point trying to be made is that all retailers come and go and leave huge empty buildings behind eventually. They are predicting Amazon will be no different in X years (no one knows when).

Almost every business ends at one time or another. Why is this even a discussion?

 

[Larry Caldwell]

What does an empty mall have to do with Amazon distribution?

Amazon is converting empty malls to distribution centers.

 

[DieselBound]

Most local retailers demise is of their own fault. Small businesses still operate as if it’s 1970. They are closed when I drive to work in the morning, and closed when I drive home in late afternoon. So I shop at Wally World and other big boxes because they are actually open in the evenings when I have time to shop. I hear the same story from many other folks. Busy people often don’t have time to shop during the hours of 8-5. We can’t buy anything from a business that is closed.

They don't have the lobby power. It's all tied to a social construct. I'd argue that we need to look more at where society is heading than at business models.

 

[drivesitfar]

Try living in the PNW where there are so many many projects demanding every cement truck AND the cement workers are on strike.

 

[DieselBound]

Cities are already looking at that to fill the gap from vacant office and retail space.

Yeah. That's cities. Amazon distribution centers tend to be outside city cores: I have no opinion on this.