Amazon Is So Much Bricks and Mortar
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/technology/amazon-warehouses.html?campaign_id=158&emc=edit_ot_20201130&instance_id=245
E-commerce is not a purely online activity. It affects our real world, too, in both constructive and potentially harmful ways. Many of us think of Amazon as that button we click to make our stuff magically arrive without the fuss of physical stores. Let me change your minds a little. Amazon’s e-commerce warehouses, package distribution centers and hubs for back-end computing gear occupied more than 190 million square feet of space in North America at the end of 2019. That’s bigger than the (...)