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Thanks To Amazon, Warehouse Rents Have Never Been Higher - Quartz
Thanks To Amazon, Warehouse Rents Have Never Been Higher - Quartz
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FROM OUR OBSESSION
Getting there
Businesses are rethinking how to move goods and people around the planet.
By Nicolás Rivero
Tech Reporter
The supply chain tumult has made it more costly for businesses to
move goods around the world, which can in turn lead to price hikes
for everything from used cars to Valentine’s Day roses. One sure way
to bring those prices back down is to build more warehouses—an
effort that could start to reshape the world’s largest cities, as
companies vie to buy old shopping malls, storefronts, and horse
tracks and convert them into coveted logistics facilities.