Discussion

• @jangles Neville Hobson on x

  Breaking into the traditional non-food #retail market proved too challenging for #Amazon at present. I visited their first UK 4-star store when it opened here, looked more like a showcase than a real store, a front-end to the website https://twitter.com/...

• @andrewlapin Andrew Lapin on x

  The Amazon bookstore was a beta test for the Metaverse: an Uncanny Valley simulation of a physical space you used to love but can no longer visit because the company itself had already destroyed it. https://www.reuters.com/...

• @thebookloftgv @thebookloftgv on x

  so sad to see a scrappy newcomer struggle to break into the market. tragic really... https://www.reuters.com/...

• @the_transit_guy Hayden Clarkin on x

  BREAKING - All Amazon Books, Four Star, and pop up stores are closed permanently this AM. Employees were given no warning and it's unclear if they'll be offered a job within the company. This after Amazon Fresh retail workers try to unionize. Shameful. https://www.cnbc.com/...

• @greenapplebooks @greenapplebooks on x

  a win for indie bookstores? https://www.reuters.com/...

• @jasonshen Jason Shen on x

  Unpopular take but I loved browsing these stores. Goes to show that big co won't sustain a lagging business unless there's huge strategic value or exec conviction. https://twitter.com/...

• @minter H. Wade Minter on x

  Affects the Amazon store at Crabtree https://twitter.com/...

• @riptide360 Stephen Inoue on x

  Looks like Amazon online is driving their own retail stores out of business... https://www.cnbc.com/...

• @mariskreizman Maris Kreizman on x

  Congrats to all of the indie bookstores I know and love who were so good at bookselling and interacting with their communities that they outlasted this shitty behemoth. https://twitter.com/...

• @mtamblyn Michael Tamblyn on x

  It turns out selling books in the real world (and making money while doing it) is hard. Indies everywhere, take a bow. https://twitter.com/...

• @quinnypig Corey Quinn on x

  “We're refocusing our efforts on providing additional ways to run containers” confirmed an Amazon spokesperson. https://twitter.com/...

• @elkmovie Michael Love on x

  I actually liked their bookstores, fewer titles + surfacing interesting ones I wouldn't necessarily have noticed at another store. (kids section put me onto quite a few new books my kids have loved) https://twitter.com/...

• @jeffmacke Jeff Macke on x

  Amazon won't rest until all physical retail is dead! “What about stores without any living humans selfishly taking $18 an hour to assist customers? When do we get those?!” People asked Alexa Her silence spoke volumes. https://www.cnbc.com/...

• @richontech Rich DeMuro on x

  Whoa. If Amazon can't figure this out, that doesn't bode well for other online retailers trying to do stores https://twitter.com/...

• @gregbensinger @gregbensinger on x

  I cannot tell you how much hype there was about these physical bookstores as Amazon was secretly planning them https://www.reuters.com/...

• @paulconstant Paul Constant on x

  Amazon's brick-and-mortar bookstores were never very welcoming. They felt like bookstores designed by people who never visited a bookstore before. https://twitter.com/...