Amazon will open its first supercenter store, beginning a new direction for Amazon retail, which has focused exclusively on smaller formats up to this point. The new supercenter will be a 230,000 square foot behemoth; the average Walmart supercenter is around 179,000 square feet.
Amazon currently runs a distant second to Walmart in U.S. retail sales, according to the National Retail Federation, which lists Walmart with $568.7 million in U.S. sales in 2025 and Amazon with $273.7 million. Walmart operates over 4800 U.S. Walmart and Sam’s Club stores, with around 3300 of them in the supercenter format. Amazon operates hundreds of grocery stores (mostly Whole Foods locations) and a handful of Amazon Go stores; it has closed all of the bookstores it opened beginning in 2015 (see “Amazon Opens Bookstore”).
If Amazon wants to pass Walmart in sales it is going to have to build scale on Walmart’s brick and mortar turf, and this new store format appears to be a move in that direction.
Goods offered at the new store will include groceries, household essentials, and general merchandise, according to a statement by the Orland Park, Illinois village board, which approved the development this week.
The local government is not providing any financial incentives for the new store; increases in property tax and sales revenues from the development will be devoted to infrastructure improvements, according to the statement.
The development plan calls for the store to open in 2027.
Source: ICv2
