Given the impact that it has had on the retail business, you won’t really be wrong to think that Amazon is the perfect anti-retail store. It has served hundreds and millions of customers through its online store and doesn’t appear to be slowing down anytime soon. There have been some rather interesting reports lately suggesting that the company might open up as many as 400 physical bookstores and if a new report is believed apparently the company’s retail plans revolve around more than just books.
Citing two sources familiar with the company’s plans re/code reports that Amazon will indeed open up physical bookstores in the future but eventually, it’s going to unveil other types of retail stores as well. However, the report says that it’s not clear what products those stores are going to sell.
It’s said that the mission given to the company’s retail team is that to reimagine the experience of shopping in a physical store when the best of physical retail is merged with some of the best products available from Amazon.
Amazon’s stores might have some cool features as well and one such feature has already been detailed in a patent application by the company. Customers will be able to walk into a store, pick up a product and just leave. They wouldn’t have to stop at the checkout counter because their card on file will automatically be charged.
The company itself hasn’t commented on its retail plans as yet and even if it’s working on such plans it’s going to be a while before we see a physical Amazon store pop up in our neighborhood.
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