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

5 January, 20179 January, 2017Amazon, Bookstore2 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...

Amazon Opens Pickup Location at Stony Brook University

3 November, 20164 November, 2016Amazon, RetailLeave a comment

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...

Amazon to Open Pickup Location at the University of Wisconsin Madison

18 August, 201618 August, 2016Amazon, RetailLeave a comment

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...

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

11 July, 201612 July, 2016AmazonOne 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 the Illini Union building on...

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

9 June, 201611 June, 2016Amazon, Barnes & Noble11 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...

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

18 May, 201613 May, 2017Amazon, e-Reading Hardware5 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...

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

16 May, 201617 May, 2016Barnes & Noble, Education22 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...

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

4 March, 201628 July, 2017Amazon, Bookstore, Retail14 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’s Ninth Pickup Location to Open Near the University of Akron

4 March, 201612 May, 2017Amazon, RetailOne 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 Opens Pickup Location on the Campus of UC Berkeley

14 January, 201610 May, 2016Amazon, RetailLeave a comment

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...

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

12 January, 201612 May, 2017Amazon, RetailOne 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...

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

30 October, 201512 May, 2017Barnes & Noble, DeBunking, Education6 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...

Amazon to Open Unstores in Cincinnati, Berkeley

9 October, 201512 May, 2017Amazon, Retail6 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...

Amazon’s First Retail Store Gets Robbed, Cash Stolen

16 June, 201510 May, 2016Amazon, Retail4 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...

Purdue University Sued Over Amazon UnStore Contract

30 March, 201510 May, 2016Amazon, Lawsuit, Retail8 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...

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