Amazon: Now Selling Groceries and Your Impulse Warehouse Panic
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- ā¢On Tuesday, Orland Park Plan Commission in Illinois voted 6-1 to approve Amazon's proposal for a 229,000-square-foot retail center.
- ā¢The new Amazon supercenter will include groceries, general merchandise, prepared foods, and double as a fulfillment center and pickup location.
- ā¢This 35-acre project aims to mix physical retail with warehouse operations, blurring lines between shopping and parcel hunting.
In a bold move irritating both online and offline shopping purists, Amazon just got the green light from Orland Park, Illinois' Plan Commission on a 6-1 vote to build a 229,000-square-foot supercenter on 35 acres of suburban real estate. The mega-retail-meets-warehouse hybrid dreams of a Tesco-and-Amazon-warehouse baby, doubling as grocery store, general merchandise horde, prepared food depot, and pickup hub for your online orders all under one confusingly giant roof. It's the retail equivalent of Kevin Bacon trying to moonwalk while balancing grocery bags, set to make retail therapy less therapy and more a logistical maze starting in Orland Park. Customers can soon experience the joy of hunting down paper towels near robotics-enabled conveyor belts simultaneously fulfilling Amazon orders just out of reach.
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Amazonās new supercenter will combine supermarket aisles with 'Whereās My Package?' aislesābecause nothing says retail therapy like impulse buys and existential inventory crises.
If you thought choosing between seven types of cereal was tough, wait until you find your missing Amazon order in the same superstore.
Amazonās new Orland Park superstore proves if at first you donāt succeed, confuse your customers into staying longer.
Source: Theverge | Published: 1/9/2026 | Author: Stevie Bonifield
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