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Amazon, sensing the quest to kill us all isn’t going quite as quickly as planned, is going brick and mortar. No it’s not. (Yes it is.) (Nuh-uh.) (Uh-huh.) (Mm-mm.) (Mm-hm.) (Etc.)
AMAZON, the world’s biggest online retailer and scourge of bookshops everywhere, is planning a surprise invasion of the British high street.
Property landlords said that the American company, which has a market value of $59.1 billion (£35.6 billion), had launched a secret search for bricks-and-mortar stores to support its rapidly growing website. It is understood to be scouring the country for high-profile sites just as the Borders book chain is shutting up shop.
It represents an extraordinary reversal from the dotcom boom, when there were fears that internet shopping would kill off the high street. It would also be the most high-profile move by a web-only retailer into stores.
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December 7th, 2009 at 10:24 am
You mean the heavy breather? Mystery solved. All this time I thought it was my ex.
December 7th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
THis might be a good thing actually. When Gateway Computers tried to go form online sales to brick & mortar, then ended from dropping from the top ranks to bankruptcy in fairly short order. Could be a Godsend for the small guys.