Amazon has tested several new, in-person shopping experiences for customers in recent years. With their latest project, the company is taking aim at Walmart’s big-box retail domain.
Earlier this month, the village of Orland Park, Illinois announced that Amazon had chosen their city as the site of a proposed commercial retail brick-and-mortar store, to be housed at the southwest corner of 159th Street and LaGrange Road, the location of a former restaurant.
The 35-acre, 225,000-to-229,000 square-foot building is nearly 50,000 square feet bigger than the size of the average Walmart supercenter…