Posted on 08/19/2021 5:21:15 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Amazon department stores are expected to be in California and Ohio. The locations will take up roughly 30,000 square feet, around the size of a Kohl’s or T.J. Maxx location, but still about the third of a size of a traditional department store.
n recent years, the company bought Whole Foods Market and has opened brick-and-mortar book stores, Amazon-branded grocery stores and cashierless convenience stores. Physical locations come with higher fixed costs but can attract more eyeballs and allow consumers to try on clothes.
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I wonder how they feel about looters.
In person shopping and Amazon, two of my least favorite things. If they’d only be open from 0400-0700, they’d hit the trifecta.
Call me crazy.. but if I had a multi billion dollar operation I wouldn’t mess with my success.
Bezos stepped down as CEO of Amazon to play space cadet. This is what happened.
I’d provide more pick up stations in retail outlets.
This announcement confirms something I've been saying for the last five years: Amazon hasn't been nearly as "successful" as they're made out to be.
Their sales volume has grown exponentially, but from everything I've read about the company it sounds like their retail sales operation is a break-even venture at best. Think about it: After all these years, they don't make any money on their merchandise sales.
A quick look at a traditional retail delivery process makes it easy to understand their problem:
1. Manufacturer delivers product to distribution center (DC) for retail store chain.
2. Product is delivered from the DC to the retail store by the store chain.
3. Retail store sells product to customer.
4. Customer takes the store home.
Amazon's entire business model has been built around making the process more efficient by refining the delivery processes for Step 1 and Step 2 and eliminating Step 3. But it turns out there are enormous costs to taking on Step 4.
Amazon is learning the hard way that making deliveries to every customer in all corners of the U.S. is a challenging task, and effectively imposes a cost on the company for a step in the delivery process that customers used to do "for free."
At least outside Democrat sh!t-holes, that is. :-P
Apparently the history of the evolution of shopping started the same day Amazon started, so there's no lesson to learn from the current empty storefronts.
bezos planned to put everyone else out of business, and become the only place to go to buy things. Retail has taken a BIG hit from Amazon, but I think the big retailers know retail better than bezos, and that this latest venture of his will fail. I may be wrong, but I hope not.
Yet Amazon wants to open a brick and mortar store that requires me to do what I already don't want to do?
Pretty funny.
Who wants another retail store they will be banned from or thrown out of because they won’t wear a muzzle or get jabbed with the poison?
I know, that is the whole point. You don’t have to go to a store.
This seems like a less than brilliant plan. I wonder if any of the Amazon executives has ever been in a T.J. Maxx or Burlington Coat Factory store, let alone worked at one.
Sears, Roebuck & Co. started as a mail order company. Then they built stores. Then they fell in love with their stores. Then, years later, after original management had passed and new, professional leaders gave directions they began the long, slow slide down to bankruptcy.
Where is Sears?
Amazon started as an internet version of Sears. Will they follow?
“Amazon hasn’t been nearly as “successful” as they’re made out to be.”
Spot on, you beat me to it.
Too bad Sears had bad management, they had the perfect setup with the old catalog business. They could have converted the catalog to online then use the Stores as the distribution network.
You win lol you beat me to the comment. Spot on.
When it is difficult to shop inna store? I don’t believe any of this. They will at most be drop off/pick up centers. Nothing on shelves. “Go over there and see the catalog. We’ll have it for you this PM.”
Oh, and looting? With nothing on shelves, problem solved.
They are truly evil. They’ll do anything to put their competition out of business. Can you say monopoly?
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