I buy my books on-line from B&N and have them delivered to the nearest B&N.
That way I don’t have to worry about my packages getting stolen off my porch before I get home.
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Perhaps Amazon will do that for books only. I don’t think the stores would be big enough to handle shipping for all their products.
From another article a few weeks ago on this subject it was speculated that these stores are for marketing and advertising the Amazon brand and probably won’t make money by themselves.
The notion makes about as much sense
as buying up newspapers.