A website apparently published by Amazon promises the arrival of Amazon Go in Encinitas.
See AmazonEncinitas.com.
Amazon Go is a cashierless convenience store that is being beta-tested in an employee-only store in Seattle. Technology tracks customers as they take items off the shelves, then charges them as they walk out of the store.
Is Amazon Go really coming to Encinitas? The website could be an elaborate hoax. No announcement appears on Amazon's primary Go site. The AmazonEncinitas.com web domain is registered at Google, a rival of Amazon in some business areas. Online listings still show the Whole Foods site for lease.
Amazon bought Whole Foods this year, after the Encinitas store had closed. If Amazon Go does come to Encinitas, it would likely use only a small fraction of the Whole Foods site, as the Go concept is 1800 square feet and the Whole Foods site is 25,000 square feet.
UPDATE: Yep, it's a hoax.
Idiots
ReplyDeleteFake news.
ReplyDeleteAmazon may have bought Whole Foods, but they didn't buy that site in the Station.
ReplyDeleteWhether any business would look at that site and think it is a good spot for their business is doubtful, considering the 2am late night bar a few feet away from the front doors.
The only concept that may work is a multiple stand type of business that offers a variety of products, like an indoor flea market of sorts.
Save that, and this ill planned space will remain empty.
Good luck with ever finding a business that would find this attractive. Parking? Forget about it. What a lemon. Mixed use has a proven failure rate here, and still has some promoting it.
Guess who they are? Just look at the city funded Mainstreet org's that are stacked with real estate interests.
Is it that no one (including you) could find the parking lot underneath the store? It was *sort of* hidden, I guess. Your other points seem valid, but I never went there without finding more than half the lot empty.
DeleteThe problem wasn't finding it, it was using it. Remember the sewage leaks from above? Standing water you had to try stepping over when exiting/entering your car? Too-tight spots?
DeleteShoddy design, shoddy execution, all signed off on by the wonderful folks at city hall.