The online retailer has been mixing up traditional retail for a long time. Now Amazon is reportedly planning to open branches in California and Ohio.
According to a media report, the world’s largest online retailer Amazon wants to open larger stores in the style of department stores.
The first branches are to go to the start in California and Ohio, wrote the “Wall Street Journal”, citing insiders. However, Amazon did not want to confirm this when asked. “We do not comment on rumors and speculations,” said a company spokeswoman.
However, such an advance would not come as a complete surprise. Amazon may have grown up as a seller of everything on the Internet, but has also been shaking up traditional retail for a number of years. Founded in 1994 by star entrepreneur Jeff Bezos, the group operates grocery chains under brands such as Amazon Fresh and Go and also has smaller stores for books and other products. Amazon also owns the US supermarket chain Whole Foods.
With larger stores, Amazon could also place its clothing, household and technology offerings more outside the Internet. According to the “Wall Street Journal”, the stores with an area of around 30,000 square feet (almost 2,790 square meters) would be significantly larger than Amazon’s previous retail stores, but much smaller than average department stores in the United States. The report did not contain any specific information on the timetable.
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