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Thursday, August 17, 2017

Amazon's Convenience Stores

An excerpt from the Washington Post -

What it’s like to shop in Amazon’s version of the convenience store
By Hayley Tsukayama

BERKELEY, Calif. — Amazon has been aggressively courting students as part of its experiment to bring its enormous online shopping operation into the brick-and-mortar world. Now, the company is launching Amazon Instant Pickup, a service that allows customers to order certain items from their smartphones for pickup within minutes of purchase.

Essentially, Amazon has launched its own version of the convenience store.

Five college campus locations will introduce Instant Pickup this week, including the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Maryland at College Park. (Amazon chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos is the owner of The Washington Post.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/08/16/what-its-like-to-shop-in-amazons-version-of-the-convenience-store/?utm_term=.73ec9def8e95&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1

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