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>> all right, max. max foster live for us from england. appreciate it. jeff bezos has quasi retirement becomes official today. stepping down as ceo. he should be okay in retirement, though, because he's worth an estimated $197 billion. making him the richest person on earth. cnn's christine romans joins us now. nice work if you can get it. good for him. >> he is one of a kind. he is not your typical retiree. later today he steps down as the ceo of amazon, the company he founded that changed the way we shop and made him the world's richest man. he founded amazon 27 years ago in a garage in wa...

That's what happened when jeff bezos wrote a post on the website medium, no thank you, mr. pecker, got to love that. that completely turned the table on "the national enquirer" david pecker. you recall they exposed bezo's affair earlier this year, coinciding with the end of his marriage, b bezos released how got to them, whether it was a hit job because the "post" has been a frequent target of president trump. manuel franceia, think about this, there is a negotiation of sorts taking place, some would say extortion or blackmail, involving the richest man in the world. they don't want money from...

Raleigh. and then you end up saying no, we're going to go to, as you put it so well, the financial capital and where, by the way, b bezos. every year, americans spend 7$79 billion to move jobs in the u.s. that's more than the federal government spends on education or infrastructure. this is absurd waste. >> what is the rationale? >> the rationale is they -- there's several things they're saying. one thing they're saying is they need to expand in order to be a truly national company, right? i don't buy that. one headquarters, two hts, by the time you get to seven hts -- >> we'll accept the prom...

Amazon's the clear winner here. it now accounts for 43% of online retail sales. on the losing side, nearly 7,000 store closures have already been announced this year. and companies like toys "r" us, payless, radio shack, many others have all filed for bankruptcy. this retail apocalypse is happening despite a strong economy. online shopping is also speeding up change in the industry. one bad holiday season could be enough to close a store that would have survived in the past. >> all right, christine romans, thank you so much. all right, well, did you shop on amazon yesterday? and if so, you hel...