Zappos to bring its 6pm Outlet to Louisville

A sister site of online clothing and shoe retailer Zappos.com soon will relocate its Bullitt County outlet store to Louisville.

6 pm.com, a discount retailer of clothing, shoes and apparel accessories for men, women and children, said on Facebook this week that it will close its Shepherdsville outlet store at 376 Amazon.com Blvd. on Sunday, March 31.

The outlet store will relocate to a new space at 9101 Minor Lane in Louisville in April as part of a larger Zappos operation. The opening date has not been disclosed.

I reached out to the 6pm Outlet Store for more information on the relocation and was referred to Zappos' public relations team. This story will be updated if I hear back.

It was not immediately clear how many employees will be affected by the move.

The store opened in 2003 as a Zappos Outlet but changed its name to 6 pm Outlet in 2010. The outlet store offers select customer returns and first-quality liquidations from Zappos.com and 6pm.com, according to its Facebook page.

The merchandise in the outlet store is at least 50 percent off the manufacturer suggested retail price and as much as 70 percent off.

The move of the outlet store comes after I reported in December that Zappos, a subsidiary of Seattle-based Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN), quietly signed a lease for a 325,000-square-foot industrial building at 9101 Minor Lane in late August. The building was recently constructed off South Park Road near the Renaissance South Business Park.

The lease details were discovered in a review of large industrial lease deals signed in 2018 as recorded by Louisville commercial real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield/Commercial Kentucky. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed, but a Zappos official confirmed in December that the facility will be used as a fulfillment center.

The building adds to an already significant footprint for Amazon and its subsidiaries in the market. The company has a roughly 1 million-square-foot fulfillment center at the River Ridge Commerce Center in Jeffersonville and more than two million square feet of space in Bullitt County.