mistakes Dead Lobster: seafood chain sinking into bankruptcy Rob Beschizza

amazon Amazon buying dead malls to turn into fulfilment centers Rob Beschizza

electronics The slow dying of Fry's Gareth Branwyn

Business Arbitrage nomads are stripping the carcasses of America's dying big-box stores and moving the choicest morsels into Amazon warehouses Cory Doctorow

corruption America's big box stores sucked up corporate welfare and killed Main Street — now they're ducking property tax Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism 20% of New York retail space is sitting vacant Cory Doctorow

Business Private equity killed big box retailers, leaving empty big boxes across America, and architects have plans Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Retail Apocalypse, the sim game Cory Doctorow

Business Blame the US Retail Apocalypse on hedge funds and financialization, not Amazon and Walmart Cory Doctorow

Happy Mutants "Gretapocalypse" is a Greta Thunberg-themed art car made from the "shredded remnants of the very tools of the American dream" Jennifer Sandlin

preppers Costco now selling prepper food buckets for the imminent apocalypse Allan Rose Hill

fire fire fire This consumer-grade flamethrowing robot dog is finally available for sale Thom Dunn

tabloids Testicles in a jar (and China's invasion of America) in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

books Good Omens is about to get a tabletop game tie-in Devin Nealy

Business Private equity bosses took $200m out of Toys R Us and crashed the company, lifetime employees got $0 in severance Cory Doctorow

telcoms Between Trump, Ajit Pai and a GOP Congress, there's never been a better time for a terrible Sprint/T-Mobile merger Cory Doctorow