Amazon leads the way into the genuine world as online genuine estate – once heralded as the next frontier for retail – becomes crowded and expensiveRemember when the future of retail was online? Now it seems that online retailers possess decided they can’t get by without bricks and mortar.
Amazon raised eyebrows in November when it opened its first brick and mortar extension – a bookstore in Seattle’s University Village. The online giant’s rise,after all, is blamed for laying waste to independent bookshops across the country.
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Source: theguardian.com