retail apocalypse Amazon buying dead malls to turn into fulfilment centers Rob Beschizza

retail apocalypse The slow dying of Fry's Gareth Branwyn

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

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

too few of our old crew left on astor 20% of New York retail space is sitting vacant Cory Doctorow

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

late-stage 8-bit capitalism Retail Apocalypse, the sim game Cory Doctorow

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