Amazon to Open Second Bookstore in Boston, and a Pickup Location in College Park, MD
Hot on the heels of Amazon's first New York bookstore comes new news that Amazon is also opening a second bookstore in the Boston metro area....Continue reading
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Amazon Opens Pickup Location at Stony Brook University
Amazon opened their first unstore in New York state this week at Stony Brook University on Long Island. Located on the lower level of SBU’s Frank Melville...Continue reading
Amazon to Open Pickup Location at the University of Wisconsin Madison
Amazon has struck a deal with the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the exclusive right to open a staffed pickup location on the UW-Madison campus. The retailer...Continue reading
Amazon to Open New Pick-up Location at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Amazon announced their 14th college campus unstore on Monday. It's going to open this fall in Urbana, Ill., at the University of Illinois. The 2,200-square-foot space will be located...Continue reading
Amazon to Open Pickup Location Near Texas Tech U.; B&N to Open New Store in Ashburn, VA
Amazon's physical empire continues to grow, and B&N continues to experiment with new stores. Amazon put out a press release on Thursday announcing that they're opening...Continue reading
Amazon Has an Alexa-Powered Tablet in the Works, and is Going to be Selling it in Their New Retail Stores
A couple different Amazon Revelations have dropped in the past 24 hours. The tl;dr version is that Amazon's next accessible/IoT/home automation gadget could look like a tablet,...Continue reading
B&N Education’s New Cosmetics Dept is the Death Knell for the College Bookstore
Over the past five years B&N has been replacing more and more of the books in its retail stores with pasta, 3d printers, alcohol, and other merchandise....Continue reading
It’s Time to Revisit the “400 Amazon Bookstores” Rumor
A little over a month ago the WSJ reported on a rumor to the effect that Amazon was planning to open up to 400 bookstores. The rumor was...Continue reading
Amazon’s Ninth Pickup Location to Open Near the University of Akron
Amazon may only have a single bookstore (with a second one in the works in San Diego) but their non-retail brick-and-mortar efforts are growing by leaps and...Continue reading
Amazon Opens Pickup Location on the Campus of UC Berkeley
Just in time for the new semester, Amazon has opened a new unstore on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. [email protected] Student Union, as the...Continue reading
Amazon Moves Into Direct Competition With B&N College With New Unstore at University of Pennsylvania
Amazon has gained another foothold in their bid to conquer the college retail market, and this time they're setting up shop just down the road from...Continue reading
Barron’s Over-Estimates the Prospects of B&N Education
Late last week Barron's published one financial analyst's take on B&N Education, the college bookstore division that was spun off of B&N earlier this year. B&N...Continue reading
Amazon to Open Unstores in Cincinnati, Berkeley
Details are still scarce on that possible Amazon store in Seattle, but I know quite a few details on one of Amazon's other brick-and-mortar ventures. For...Continue reading
Amazon’s First Retail Store Gets Robbed, Cash Stolen
Amazon may know all there is to know about online retail but there are still a few details about brick and mortar retail which escape them. For...Continue reading
Purdue University Sued Over Amazon UnStore Contract
Amazon's contract to run a staffed pickup and drop off location at Purdue is ruffling a few feathers. The NACS (National Association of College Stores) is...Continue reading