Good Morning. After closing dozens of physical stores, Amazon is trying again with its largest location ever. What makes this attempt different?
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Amazon’s Big Box Store
Amazon is opening its largest retail store in Orland Park, Illinois, spanning 230,000 square feet. That's bigger than the average Walmart and could fit nearly two Target stores inside. Half will sell groceries and general merchandise, while half handles fulfillment operations.
The store integrates digital ordering with physical shopping. Customers can order different product variations at in-store kiosks and arrange curbside pickup for heavy items. Online order assembly happens separately from retail aisles. Additional big-box locations are planned nationwide.
Amazon has struggled with physical retail success despite multiple attempts. The company closed over half its Amazon Go convenience stores and dozens of other branded locations. In-store purchases still represent over 80% of U.S. retail sales.
Goldman Sachs Controversy
Goldman Sachs general counsel Kathryn Ruemmler faces internal scrutiny after new documents revealed deeper ties to Jeffrey Epstein than previously disclosed. She was named backup executor on Epstein's 2019 will and attended his arraignment, details she didn't initially share when hired in 2020.
Congressional releases in 2025 showed dozens of emails between Obama lawyer Ruemmler and Epstein, including political commentary about then-President Trump. Goldman executives formulated potential exit plans for Ruemmler, though CEO David Solomon publicly supports her. She disclosed the relationship as professional when joining the firm.
Goldman's board maintains confidence in Ruemmler, who serves as top legal adviser and sits on the reputational risk committee. Internal and external reviews continue as more documents emerge from Epstein's estate.
Adaptation Wars Begin
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey and Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights are triggering online outrage over historical accuracy and casting choices. Critics attack Nolan's Viking ships, Batman-style armor, and pants-wearing Greeks. Fennell faces backlash for casting 33-year-old Margot Robbie as teenage Catherine and white actor Jacob Elordi as the "dark-skinned" Heathcliff described in Brontë's novel.
The anger intensified when Wuthering Heights photos showed modern pleather costumes, blonde hair salon looks, and Princess Diana wedding gowns on 1780s Yorkshire moors. Fennell's casting director defended liberties, saying "it's just a book." Yet scholars note Homer's epics contain historical inaccuracies themselves, written 400 years after events they describe.
Every adaptation reflects its creation era as much as source material. The books survive reinterpretation. Adaptations often send new readers back to originals anyway.
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TODAY’S LIFE ADVICE
The One Thing All Rich People Do
Wealthy people concentrate on fewer ventures, not more. Nick Huber ran 11 companies simultaneously. He shut down four and kept only three core businesses.
The Result? His total cash flow actually increased after consolidating.
Power law rules: few businesses generate disproportionate returns
Most ventures drain resources without meaningful contribution
Spreading attention dilutes execution quality
His Advice to Become Rich:
Audit current projects. Identify your top three income generators.
Actively shut down or sell everything else.
Stop chasing new opportunities until you've maximized existing ones.
The Bottom Line: Real wealth comes from mastering a few things deeply, not dabbling in many things poorly.
The Seed Oil Debate
Dr. Peter Attia and Dr. Lane Norton discuss the controversial topic of seed oils and cardiovascular health. The conversation examines four main arguments against seed oils: mortality data from RCTs (Minnesota Coronary Experiment and Sydney Heart Study), LDL oxidation mechanisms, industrial processing concerns, and evolutionary perspectives. A central theme is the importance of understanding confounding variables—particularly trans fats—in older nutrition studies, and the need to evaluate converging lines of evidence rather than cherry-picking individual studies.
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