As it moves across the US closing, canceling and delaying fulfillment centers and last-mile delivery stations—a cost-cutting binge now encompassing 32M SF and growing—Amazon has gone out of its way to downplay any narrative that it is pulling back from an expansive future as the e-commerce leader.
The e-retail giant wants everyone to know it is not abandoning any of the locations it earmarked for growth during a pandemic expansion that doubled the size of Amazon's logistics network, to more than 400M SF by the end of 2021.
The Seattle-based tech giant—which, in the midst of laying off 18K workers, last week disclosed that it is pausing construction on the lion's share of its mammoth HQ2 project in Virginia—seems to be particularly sensitive about any suggestion that it has changed its plans for more than 4,100 acres of land and property Amazon swallowed during the pandemic.
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