Amazon fuels North America's most severe warehouse shortage

Finding warehouse space around Toronto has never been harder, and the e-commerce fueled shortage is disrupting businesses and threatening the broader economy. With the pandemic driving a belated embrace of online shopping in Canada, Amazon.com Inc. has been gobbling up warehouses. That's pushed the vacancy rate in the Toronto area down to just 0.5%, making it the tightest market in North America, if not the world.