MENOMONEE FALLS, WI – Jeff Bezos made Kohls an offer they just couldn’t refuse and managers at Kohls branches across the country are left asking how this happened as Amazon boxes start piling up in their stores. “It’s a nightmare,” said a store manager who wanted to remain anonymous. “There is Amazon crap everywhere you look and most of it is just garbage.” A fact not lost on Bezos who just two months into his collaboration with the retailer has already modified the terms of his agreement with Kohls to ensure that the retailer never sends back a single return to Amazon. “We’re locked into this contract with them for the next 5 years,” Cynthia Harrington an executive at Kohls corporate offices in Wisconsin said on Wednesday. “And there’s no way out of it. “I don’t think corporate thought this through when they made the agreement,” said Harrington. “We just don’t have the retail or warehouse space to house all of these returns for the 60 plus days it is taking for processing.” Apparently Bezos has found a dumping ground for all of the cheap, poor quality junk that has flooded the Amazon marketplace in recent years and he is unwilling to let Kohls out of their contract. “We thought it would be a great partnership. A win-win for Amazon and for Kohls but it is looking like Amazon is the only winner in this deal,” Harrington says as she scrolls through the pictures of warehouses stuffed full of Amazon boxes. Meanwhile merchandise intended for the store is buried and employees are unable to access it to put it on the floor. “I can’t imagine what it is going to be like with after Christmas returns,” Harrington says. Kohls will have to hang on for the next five years and hope that Amazon doesn’t bury them. Literally.
Kohls Drowning in Amazon Returns Expects to Be Buried by Christmas
