Road-Tripping With the Amazon Nomads
They travel America in vans and RVs stopping at Targets and Wal-Marts in search of rare soap and coveted toys to stock Amazon’s fulfillment warehouses.
They travel America in vans and RVs stopping at Targets and Wal-Marts in search of rare soap and coveted toys to stock Amazon’s fulfillment warehouses.
Josh Dzieza The Verge Jul 2019 15min Permalink
The rise and (potential) fall of the electronics superstore.
Bryan Gruley, Jeffrey McCracken Businessweek Oct 2012 15min Permalink
On the pair of entrepreneurs behind a Wal-Mart of weed in Oakland. The duo is talking IPO. “Everybody I was meeting was a little bit older, more a part of the hippie generation,” says one. “I was like, ‘I bet there’s so much room for innovation and new ideas.’”
Josh Harkinson Mother Jones Jan 2011 Permalink