In the old Seattle Macy’s building, Amazon plans to test robots.

Amazon desires to show the basement of the previous downtown Seattle Macy’s constructing right into a testing website for retail robots, the Puget Sound Enterprise Journal experiences in a captivating scoop.

Why it issues: The plan would deliver extra adjustments to a constructing that was as soon as the centerpiece of Seattle’s retail core — and hints at Amazon’s plans to increase additional into brick-and-mortar retail.

What’s taking place: Filings with the town point out that Amazon plans to launch a pilot referred to as “Venture Lucy” beneath the previous Macy’s constructing at third Avenue and Pine Road, per the Enterprise Journal.

• Amazon already moved into the constructing’s higher flooring in 2017; the Macy’s closed in 2020.

Particulars: As a part of the deliberate check venture, autonomous robots would seize storage pods containing footwear and clothes and convey them to in-person staff, who would choose the precise gadgets they want, the Enterprise Journal explains.

• Then the robots would take the pods again to storage.

What’s subsequent: It is unclear the place, precisely, Amazon would deploy the robots, however they may play a job within the e-commerce large’s growth of bodily outfitters.

• The corporate not too long ago opened its first Amazon Type storefront in Glendale, California, and has been hiring for different roles linked to its brick-and-mortar clothes operation, the Enterprise Journal writes.

Flashback: The long run Amazon robotic headquarters will eternally be the Bon Marché to me, regardless that it hasn’t been referred to as that for almost 20 years.

• I am unable to stroll by the constructing with out the Bon’s jingle model of Day-O working by way of my head. (Bear in mind? As an alternative of, “Daylight come and we we wish to to go residence,” it sang variations of, “Sooner or later solely on the Bon Marché,” to advertise one-day gross sales.)