Saturday, November 11, 2017

City staff, mayor, merchants association fall for Amazon Go hoax

Del Mar Times:
A spokesperson for Amazon has denied that an Amazon Go store is opening in Encinitas, though city representatives confirmed earlier Nov. 10 that the store was opening.

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Earlier on Nov. 10, Mayor Catherine Blakespear said city officials told her the store would open next year. Irene Pyun, interim executive director of the Encinitas 101 Main Street Association, said she believed it could help bring more shoppers downtown.

"We are excited to see a 'store of the future' coming to our downtown," Pyun said. "Amazon Go will fulfill a hole in our downtown that needed a fresh start. I see it as a positive in that it will bring people from all over to experience a new way to shop."
It's unclear why city officials would confirm false information from an obviously suspicious website. As Thomas Jefferson said, don't believe everything you read on the Internet.
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9 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 11, 2017 at 8:05 AM

    From top to bottom the city is full of idiots.

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    1. AnonymousNovember 11, 2017 at 2:21 PM

      Your the true idiot, come out of your bedroom and put a face on your constant negativism!

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    2. AnonymousNovember 11, 2017 at 8:47 PM

      And please show me where I am wrong...

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    3. AnonymousNovember 11, 2017 at 11:40 PM

      And please, 2:21, don't call someone an idiot until you look up the difference between "Your" and "You're" and figure out when to use which.

      I mean, really.

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  2. AnonymousNovember 11, 2017 at 8:16 AM

    The announcement was a good joke and more believable than most of Donnie's Tweets. I fell for this Fake News but now I see that today is not April 1.

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  3. FREDNovember 11, 2017 at 11:57 AM

    Lol. Yes, Jefferson was quite a visionary warning about fake news on the internet.

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  4. AnonymousNovember 11, 2017 at 3:27 PM

    I understand that Tasha created Amazon, why can't she get them to work here?

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  5. AnonymousNovember 12, 2017 at 8:44 AM

    When I heard the "news", I thought Amazon would not be so stupid. The parking is terrible. Whole Foods learned it and it would be worse for Amazon's concept.

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  6. AnonymousNovember 14, 2017 at 2:16 PM

    That site is terrible - no parking. It'll either have to be subdivided into smaller suites or made into a disco/dope parlour. One grocery store would never follow another into a failed site.

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