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Originally Posted by John F
Amazon also has some B&M stores.
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So, altogether, about 1,675 locations available for buying Kindles or Nooks "in-store." 627 Barnes & Nobles, 997 Best Buys and about 40 Amazon B&M stores.
I guess I'm lucky. Boise has a Best Buy
AND a Barnes & Noble. Up until the end of 2019 there was also a Walmart in the area that carried Kobo Aura 2s "in-store." Of course that was about 20 miles away from Boise (in Caldwell, Idaho).
EDIT: It looks like Target is selling Kindle Paperwhites and Amazon Fires "in-store" now, so that's potentially another 1,800 more locations (I don't know if every location stocks them or not). I know in 2012 Target quit selling Kindles, I didn't realize that in 2016 they started selling them again. I guess I haven't been in a Target in five or six years. These three Targets in my area where I could go pick up a Paperwhite tomorrow if I wanted to.
Apparently the best Best Buy can do is have a Kindle ready for pickup at the store by about August 5th — that's on all models, so I guess they're not currently carrying Kindles in the Boise store at all. (Maybe they're still not open for walk-in business?)