Amazon becomes a coveted mall tenant: WSJ

• Amazon.com, long seen as a villain by shopping center owners for driving their brick-and-mortar retail chain tenants out of business, is now coveted as a tenant by mall landlords, the Wall Street Journal reports.
• While chains like Sears Holdings and Macy's trim back their physical stores, Amazon has been building up its presence and is experimenting with new physical retail formats.
• Especially attractive is the kind of consumer that Amazon is likely to draw, given the retailer's rich database of consumer data.
• Federal Realty Investment Trust (NYSE:FRT) CEO Don Wood says, "The idea of more demand from [Amazon] is a huge positive for me," and could motivate other grocers to boost investment in their own stores.
• Amazon is starting a new grocery store chain with dozens of locations and it's testing Amazon Go cashierless convenience stores and stores that sell items with ratings over four stars from its website.
• Previously: Amazon coming in big with new grocery store concept (March 4)
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