12-06-2009, 12:24 PM | #1 |
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Amazon Brick and Mortars Coming to England
According to an Article in the Times Online Amazon is looking to open up brick and mortar stores in England. The objective being that people can buy online and then pick their items up locally instead of having the item shipped.
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12-06-2009, 12:27 PM | #2 |
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That's interesting. Do they have such stores in the US?
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12-06-2009, 12:30 PM | #3 |
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No, not yet. This is entirely new.
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12-06-2009, 12:49 PM | #5 |
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Why would they do that ? Their business model is based on the fact that they can still have a good margin although they are offering low prices BECAUSE they don't have the costs linked to a B&M structure. Their logistics costs are kept quite low because they managed to secure excellent conditions with DHL here in Europe, and the booksellers with B&M structures are facing difficult times right now in UK as well as in other countries in Europe.
I am not denying the veracity of the information, but I cannot grasp why on earth they would go that road. |
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What seems to be being proposed are "collection points" where one could physically pick up goods ordered on-line, rather than full-blown retail stores. That could probably be done at relatively low cost.
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12-06-2009, 01:24 PM | #7 |
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Let them buy Borders
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12-06-2009, 01:30 PM | #8 |
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If they are after collection points, unfortunately Borders stores probably wouldn't be appropriate, given that they are (mostly) small shops in (mostly) town centre location. They'd probably be after industrial units in out-of-town retail parks.
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The motive is explained in the newspaper article. Now Amazon sell "big stuff" rather than just books and CDs, it's no longer things that the postman can put through the letterbox, and people don't like having to arrange redeliveries, etc, when they're out at work. What people are perceived as wanting is the ability to order on-line, but collect from a store at a time that's convenient for them.
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12-06-2009, 01:34 PM | #11 |
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This is the worst news I've heard for several years. Amazon wants it all ... it wants its toast buttered both sides ... it wants too much. Amazon is not customer-friendly, it's simply bloody greedy. Had Dr Frankenstein created this supposed 'book store' he could not have made a worse job of it. N
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One interesting thing mentioned on Teleread. What if you automatically accquired download rights when you bought a pBook. Now that would be cool!
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As the newspaper article mentions, there's a very big chain of "catalogue" shops here in the UK called Argos, where you can order on-line and then collect from their (very large number of) shops. Sounds as if Amazon are trying to muscle in on their business.
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