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Sam Walton opened Wal-Mart Discount City on Rogers' Highway 71, his first store under the name after a decade running Ben Franklin variety stores. The format was the bet: lower margins on everything, in towns the big chains had written off as too small.

Developer Triple Five Group opened the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, debuting 330 stores and an indoor amusement park inside the largest shopping mall in the United States.

Amazon.com went live from a rented house in Bellevue, Washington, selling books out of a garage-scale operation with a catalogue it did not stock. Within a month it had shipped to all fifty states and forty-five countries.

The chain told its staff it would wind down or sell all 735 of its US stores, ending a company that had defined the category-killer format for forty years. A leveraged buyout in 2005 left it carrying about $5bn of debt it never worked off.

IKEA hat seine einzige Filiale in Tennessee nach fast einem Jahrzehnt geschlossen und damit 114 Arbeitsplätze gestrichen. Das Unternehmen bezeichnete die Schließung als Teil einer strategischen Neuausrichtung, beschlossen nach einer Prüfung von „Marktanteil, Geschäftsentwicklung, Kostenstruktur und der Gesamtoptimierung physischer Standorte"; Kundinnen und Kunden im Mid-South können weiterhin online bestellen und bei FedEx abholen.

Etsy is laying off about 220 employees, roughly 12% of its workforce, mostly in product and engineering, leaving about 1,600 people.

Eine Erhöhung um 1 Dollar pro Stunde hebt den Mindesteinstiegslohn für Amazons Vollzeitbeschäftigte im operativen Kerngeschäft in den USA auf 20 Dollar, bei einem Durchschnittslohn von fast 24 Dollar pro Stunde – Teil einer Investition von über 1,5 Milliarden Dollar in höhere Löhne. Hinzu kommen 10 % Lebensmittelrabatt für Beschäftigte und ein lebenslanges Bankangebot.

Zalando is due to shut its Erfurt fulfilment centre at the end of September 2026, ending the jobs of about 2,100 remaining staff at a site that employed around 2,700 when the closure was announced.

Costco eröffnet ein neues Warenhaus an der 10 SE Oldham Parkway nahe dem Autobahnkreuz Missouri 291 und US 50 und verschafft dem Südosten der Metropolregion Kansas City einen eigenen Club. Geboten wird das volle Format: Tankstelle, Reifenzentrum, Food Court, Apotheke, Optik und Hörgeräte.

Amazon's 48-hour fall Prime Day sale, with Prime member-exclusive deals across more than 35 categories and new Today's Big Deals dropping three times a day. It kicks off the holiday shopping season in 22 countries.

The long-awaited Amherst warehouse opens in suburban Buffalo, the newest of the ten US clubs Costco is opening this autumn. It is one of five October openings spread across Missouri, Texas, New York, Kansas and California.