Amazon is planning a Super Amazon-mart store near Chicago

Amazon could take another, even bigger, direction in brick-and-mortar stores, this time with a Walmart-style supercenter. On Tuesday, the Orland Park Plan Commission in the Chicago suburb of Orland Park, Illinois, voted 6-1 to approve Amazon’s proposal to develop 35 acres of land for a 229,000-square-foot shopping center, the newspaper reported. The information.

The development would include a physical supercenter selling groceries, general merchandise and prepared foods. It would also serve as an Amazon fulfillment center, like a department store with an Amazon warehouse in the back. Customers could also collect their Amazon orders there.

The proposed development is far from Amazon’s first attempt to launch a physical retail outlet. In recent years, it has massively closed its physical stores. In 2022, it closed its 68 physical bookstores, its 4-star stores and its pop-up stores. It also closed its two Amazon Style clothing stores in 2023. Recently, Amazon has focused its physical store efforts on Whole Foods Market, which Amazon purchased in 2017, but it appears it still has its own physical store ambitions.