Zappos outlet expected to move in 2015

The rumors are true.

The Zappos.com outlet store with outrageous deals — 70 percent off apparel! 50 percent off clearance! — plans to move to a more outrageous location: Las Vegas.

The online shoe distributing company announced the move in early 2014 in an effort to bring the store — called 6pm.com — closer to corporate headquarters, spokeswoman Catherine Cook said. Officials have not yet released a closing date for the Shepherdsville location off of Cedar Grove Road.

Bullitt County Economic Authority executive director John Snider said he's received numerous calls from residents about the store's closing, but he has little information to give them.

"I'm not sure what's going to happen except what they've told me, which is they plan in 2015 to move it," he said.

Zappos began operations in Bullitt County in 2002 with the opening of a fulfillment center in the Cedar Grove Business Park. The outlet store, which receives returns from Zappos.com and sells them to shoppers at discounted prices, takes up about 20,000 square feet of the warehouse, Snider said.

The company does not plan to move any warehouse operations out of Kentucky, Cook said by email.

Amazon bought the company in 2009 and changed the fulfillment center to ship both Zappos and Amazon order in 2012.

Amazon has since continued expanding warehouse operations in Bullitt County, leasing a second warehouse within the past year for a return center. The company now owns about 2.4 million square feet of warehouse space in the county.

Reach Bailey Loosemore at (502) 582-4646. Follow her on Twitter at @bloosemore.

ZAPPOS.COM OUTLET

Address: 376 Zappos.com Blvd., Shepherdsville

Hours: 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 12-6 p.m. Sunday

Contact: (502) 921-3939