Abstract The emergence of e-commerce as a dominant retail paradigm is associated with a rapid shift in the commercial footprint towards distributional-based consumption. Through the analysis of the geographical expansion, market coverage, and functional specialization of Amazon's distribution network, the research underlines that digitalization has a pronounced physicality. E-commerce is favoring a transition from the conventional retail freight landscape towards a new physicality of freight distributions involving purpose-designed facilities, modes, and channels. The case of Amazon underlines a consistent locational behavior to achieve a distributional hierarchy of facilities granting logistical access to consumer markets. The distributional hierarchy is organized in three stages, which are procurement and fulfillment, distribution, and last-mile.

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亚马逊的分销网络和货运数字化的足迹

摘要 电子商务作为占主导地位的零售范式的出现与商业足迹向基于分销的消费的快速转变有关。通过对亚马逊分销网络的地域扩展、市场覆盖和功能专业化的分析，该研究强调数字化具有明显的实体性。电子商务有利于从传统的零售货运格局向涉及专门设计的设施、模式和渠道的货运配送的新实体转变。亚马逊的案例强调了一致的位置行为，以实现设施的分配层次结构，从而为消费者市场提供物流准入。分销层次结构分为三个阶段，即采购和履行、分销、