Same-day Amazon service speeds Memphis retail toward a new day
During an interview at his store on Jan. 31, 2020, Robert Baumer, owner/operator of Baumer's Footware in East Memphis, talks about the negative effect that online sales has had on his business in the last five years as retail giants like Amazon take over the marketplace. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
The coming, same-day delivery by Amazon in Memphis will strengthen the changes already felt in Memphis shopping, retail owners, brokers and landlords say.
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Tom Bailey
Tom Bailey retired in January as a business reporter at The Daily Memphian, and after 40 years in journalism. A Tupelo, Mississippi, native, he graduated from Mississippi State University. He has lived in Midtown for 36 years.
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