February 03rd, 2012 from NY Times
NYT reports on rumors that Amazon might be moving into retail spaces at some point in the near future. After expanding its warehouses to increase delivery speed, a retail store may be the next step:
“Instead of using everyone else’s store as a showroom for e-commerce, the retailer could control the process and operate its own showroom. “There wouldn’t have to be any inventory, you would simply play with the stuff, talk to a professional and swipe your Amazon Prime credit card (or Amazon phone) and have it at your house in the next 24 to 48 hours,” Jason Calacanis wrote in a recent blog post...”