Amazon announced that it plans to open a massive store in the Chicago suburb of Orland Park next year that will offer groceries, prepared foods, household essentials, and general merchandise. At 230,000 square feet, the building would be significantly larger than a typical Walmart Supercenter, Costco, or Target.
According to Supermarket News, it is anticipated that the store will dedicated about half of its footprint to traditional retail, and half to fulfill online and in-store orders.
“This could be just another experiment, but as experiments go, it reveals a degree of Walmart jealousy that we didn’t expect,” wrote analysts Mike Levin and Josh Lowitz of Consumer Intelligence Research Partners, according to a report in GeekWire.
