While some are welcoming Amazon's new warehouse facility coming to Dandenong South, VIC, others are sounding the alarm about impending doom to retailers who won't be able to compete.

"Their policy is send everyone broke, we'll take over the business, we'll never pay any tax and then we'll put up the price and we'll own everything," said Harvey Norman founder Gerry Harvey.  "And that's a great pity because then you'll end up with one big giant who owns everything and pays no tax," he added.  "Amazon are going to put a lot of people out of business who pay taxes, employ people, and the great majority of their jobs that they talk about, it's like 90 percent unskilled, probably higher."

Mr. Harvey said he is not worried too much about his business, as Amazon hasn't made deep inroads in the US where it already operates.  But sporting goods, clothing, and accessories are right up Amazon's alley.

Dandenong CR Jim Memeti sees the other side of the coin, and it is shiny.  Amazon purchased a 24,000-square-meter facility for its new distribution center which will employ hundreds of people in the Melbourne suburb.  "We're just delighted that a world-renowned name like Amazon wants to set up in Dandenong," Mr. Memeti said in an interview with ABC Radio Melbourne, and said the competition with traditional bricks and mortar stores could be healthy:  "The consumer always wants to pay the right price," he added.