Amazon has a new weapon in its war on brick-and-mortar retail (AMZN)

The environment for brick-and-mortar stores is abysmal.
The rise of e-commerce and titanic shifts in how shoppers spend their money has hit malls and stores hard. Visits to malls declined by 50% between 2010 and 2013, according to the real-estate research firm Cushman & Wakefield.
Amazon in contrast has continued to eat up market share. The company accounted for 53% of onlines sales growth in the US in 2016, according to market research firm Slice Intelligence. In other words, for