Bentonville to Amazon: No Room for HQ in Wal-Mart's Hometown
- Amazon’s search for headquarters has other towns lining up
- Requirement for 50,000 workers is ‘our entire population’
Amazon Is Hunting for 'HQ2' for 50,000 Workers
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There’s at least one mayor not jumping up and down to woo Amazon’s second headquarters to town: Bob McCaslin, chief executive of Bentonville, Arkansas, home to Amazon’s primary retail competitor Wal-Mart. It just isn’t a good fit, he said.
McCaslin said he was initially intrigued by the idea of having both the world’s biggest brick-and-mortar retailer and largest online retailer in his small town in northwestern Arkansas. Just imagine the potential corporate softball team rivalries. But he quickly realized they weren’t a match for the urban setting Amazon desires.