Wall Street reported te s of amazons department stores will be smaller than ones we see from norcherm and blooming dales. Amazon scaled on approach 30 thousand square feet, according to the story. By the way, amazon already has 600 retail locations. That's because they brought whole foods. And they have 506 whole food locations. If they don't a do what wallmart's doing, mart gets an advantage. Amazon does not want them to have an advantage.