The e-commerce giant said Tuesday that some of its shuttered Amazon-branded brick-and-mortar stores would be converted into Whole Foods Market locations.
You can return Amazon purchases to Whole Foods markets...
Sure, grocery stores today have tons of cameras (look up!) but typically they only use the footage when they need it as evidence to convict a shoplifter.
Pretty sure someone is watching the security system in the office, soon to be cut over to AI I suspect...
First Amazon crushes brick-and-mortar stores, then decides to get into the bricks-and-mortar store business?
Beyond convenient return locations, this never made sense, and now they'll convert many of the shuttered locations into Whole Foods stores that will make equally wonderful return depots for online purchases.
With the coffee shop example, eventually the neighborhood will be full of people with high-paying jobs that can afford their own coffee maker, and the coffee shop will go out of business.
Does anyone move to a neighborhood because of a shop or restaurant? Outside the major cities, folks like me look at the local schools, crime, and other, more meaningful metrics about a neighborhood - not local retailers.
I'm confused - what are local businesses entitled to?
If I open a coffee shop in an up and coming neighborhood, the neighborhood was ascending before my shop opened, I opportunistically hope to ride that wave and enrich myself.
As the property values increase, arguably the property value of my coffee shop increases - but if I rent a store front, why do I 'deserve' subsidies? Why does the land lord deserve subsidies? Why do my neighbors owe me money to keep my doors open?
If you want to profit from increasing property values, you have to OWN property, not rent it.
The essay suggests creating hybrid institutions -- something between homeowners' associations and business improvement districts -- that could levy hyperlocal taxes to keep valued retail alive.
Why do coffee shop owners feel they are owed a reward for increasing property values? They make their money offering a product to local customers - as the income level of the neighborhood increases, they need to adjust their offerings to benefit in the changing environment.
The ONLY benefit they might 'deserve' would be reduced property taxes to offset increasing property values...
"Rent is theft" - really?
So we should end rental of properties, then everyone can settle into one of two groups - homeowners and homelessness. Brilliant.
Rental properties solve housing problems for people looking for a place to live without the ability to actually buy a property.
Hey, growing up my morning breakfast used NASA Technology to create a healthy powdered morning drink mix that reduced the number of oranges required to fill my juice glass!
Lord, you went off the rails in your second sentence!
Why can't you stick to the topic, cooling data centers? This has nothing to do with vibe coding, the stock market, or the Fed...
Exactly.
Bigger facilities pass cold liquid through tubes near the chips to absorb the heat. This hot liquid is sent outside to a cooling yard, where sprawling networks of pipes use as much water as a city of 50,000 people to remove the heat.
And from the cooling yard the water goes where? Oh, yeah, back into the cooling system. The water is not "used," it is "re-used" - yes, some evaporates, but not 50,000 people worth of water (BTW, how much water does "one people" use?)
It so cheap, wind and solar, that as soon as government money is pulled from a project, the project is cancelled.
Why are these projects only pursued when there is free gov't money offsetting the cost/reducing the risk?
Deep questions must be asked why so called "governments", "corporations" and "charities" have allowed the situation to persist for so long.
We raced down this rabbit hole years ago with the debates about the OLPC project, that promised to bring the internet/computing to villages that lack basic sanitation, fresh water or electricity... I think the conclusion was with internet access third-worlds could simply order whatever they lacked from Amazon or something if they had internet access.
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Is there any particular point in your post other than nitpicking
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Is there any particular point in your post other than nitpicking
Oh, you must be new here... Welcome!
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