Despite a rocky start due to a technical glitch, Amazon’s fourth annual Prime Day wound up being the online giant’s biggest shopping event yet — in terms of sales, as well as for signing up new Prime members.
The final beam was inserted today in the crown of 30 Hudson Yards, the tallest structure in New York City’s newest neighborhood and taller even than the Empire State Building seven blocks to its east.
As the planned store closures by Starbucks and Chipotle makes clear, the pendulum certainly seems to have swung away from the growth of store counts simply for growth’s sake.
