Amazon is already one of the biggest shopping sites on the Internet. Could that success translate over into brick and mortar stores?
It appears Amazon is willing to give it a try.
Amazon will open a test store in Seattle to sell Kindles and e-books.
According to Goodereader, the store would be a boutique shop and only stock “high margin and high-end items.” It would open this fall. Items would probably include those that regularly top its sales lists.
Amazon reportedly would like to find a way for consumers to get their hands on and test their popular e-reader devices.
If the store is a success, it could expand to other regions.
If they ruin my sales-tax free purchasing to put a “boutique” store in my state I will be fairly unhappy.
While the implication is that as soon as they start selling in states the online tax-free aspect will suddenly disappear is a possibility, I find it humorous that they think opening a store where typically high-priced “high-end” items will be sold exclusively will not collapse under the weight of its own overhead.