Inside Project Kobe: Amazon's plan to build Walmart-style supercenters powered by warehouse robots and AI

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• Amazon's Project Kobe aims to blend supercenters with warehouses in a new retail strategy.
• The Orland Park location is Amazon's first Kobe store, with many more planned.
• Amazon's new supercenters will use AI and robotics, but higher costs and complexities are expected.

Amazon is moving deeper into Walmart's territory with a new kind of supercenter. Internal documents show how that strategy is taking shape.