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Is Amazon getting ready to open stores?

May 26, 2009 The online retailer was granted an application today for a building that looks to be a mini store, according to Seattle's TechFlash blog. You can see the patent for yourself here.
TechFlash says that Amazon opened mini grocery pickup stores in the Seattle area in 2007, which look just like the drawings in the patent, which was filed in Oct. 2007. Those mini locations have since been closed.

So now, we've got rumors putting both Apple and Amazon in the brick and mortar business in some way (I should say Apple in terms of movie downloads - they already have brick-and-mortar stores). Netflix, you're next...

Posted by Jennifer Netherby on May 26, 2009 | Comments (0)