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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Kindle is far from the only thing Amazon sells that would benefit from a big chain of small, highly-accessible storefronts. (Over 7000 stores, averaging 2500 sq ft)
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Except for one tiny problem. Many of those storefronts are NOT highly accessible. One thing I've done wherever I've lived is map out the nearest Radio Shack locations, and I gotta say, it's rarely prime storefront locations. Sure, in some markets, there are no doubt great locations. But here, for example, it's a case of "Radio Shack is where Radio Shack has always been". The neighborhood around it changes, and people still go there because there's no other place quite like it.
These locations work for RS, but that does not mean they would work for Amazon because it's not targeting the same group.
And someone mentioned Fry's earlier - they don't have many stores, and most are concentrated in California and Texas.
http://www.frys.com/ac/storelocator/index.jsp