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

An Amazon employee picks up grocery products Monika Skolimowska/picture alliance via Getty Images 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 t...