That way I don't have to worry about my packages getting stolen off my porch before I get home.
Maybe Amazon is thinking along those lines.
Also, the main reason for them to NOT have brick & mortar stores is because of the unfair advantage they had of not having to collect sales tax from their customers. But now that that advantage is being whittled away, there's no reason for them not to try their hand at brick and mortar retail.
If customers can get 2 day delivery based on the wide reach of Amazon, they may go for it as long as the Prime membership is waived.
400 stores isn’t much as you stated. The strip malls are vacant and losing money on taxes.
My daughter works at a B&N. She’s in the children’s dept. and absolutely loves it.
I think they are grooming her to supervise it. She’s getting lots of opportunities to plan and run special events, story time etc. They had a small Maker Fair a few weeks ago and last week she donned the Clifford the Big Red Dog costume for some event.
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.