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Amazon to Open Second Bookstore in Boston, and a Pickup Location in College Park, MD

5 January, 2017 // 2 Comments

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. The company had previously sought planning [Read More ...]

Amazon Opens Pickup Location at Stony Brook University

3 November, 2016 // 0 Comments

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 Library next to a campus store run by [Read More ...]

Amazon to Open Pickup Location at the University of Wisconsin Madison

18 August, 2016 // 0 Comments

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 has promised to pay the university a [Read More ...]

Amazon to Open New Pick-up Location at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

11 July, 2016 // 1 Comment

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 in [Read More ...]

Amazon to Open Pickup Location Near Texas Tech U.; B&N to Open New Store in Ashburn, VA

9 June, 2016 // 11 Comments

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 another pickup location in [Read More ...]

Amazon Has an Alexa-Powered Tablet in the Works, and is Going to be Selling it in Their New Retail Stores

18 May, 2016 // 5 Comments

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, and it might be sold [Read More ...]

B&N Education’s New Cosmetics Dept is the Death Knell for the College Bookstore

16 May, 2016 // 22 Comments

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. It's gotten to the point where I'm not [Read More ...]

It’s Time to Revisit the “400 Amazon Bookstores” Rumor

4 March, 2016 // 14 Comments

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 quickly denied by Amazon, and the source of the rumor [Read More ...]

Amazon’s Ninth Pickup Location to Open Near the University of Akron

4 March, 2016 // 1 Comment

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 bounds. On Friday Amazon announced that [Read More ...]

Amazon Opens Pickup Location on the Campus of UC Berkeley

14 January, 2016 // 0 Comments

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 new location is known, is a 3,500 [Read More ...]

Amazon Moves Into Direct Competition With B&N College With New Unstore at University of Pennsylvania

12 January, 2016 // 1 Comment

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 a B&N College store. On Tuesday the retailer [Read More ...]

Barron’s Over-Estimates the Prospects of B&N Education

30 October, 2015 // 6 Comments

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 Edu operates about 740 [Read More ...]

Amazon to Open Unstores in Cincinnati, Berkeley

9 October, 2015 // 6 Comments

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 the past few years Amazon has been blanketing [Read More ...]

Amazon’s First Retail Store Gets Robbed, Cash Stolen

16 June, 2015 // 4 Comments

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 the past four months Amazon has been running a [Read More ...]

Purdue University Sued Over Amazon UnStore Contract

30 March, 2015 // 8 Comments

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 suing Purdue University to force it to [Read More ...]

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