Here & Now
LISTEN LIVE: Loading...
DONATE
Here & Now
LISTEN LIVE: Loading...
DONATE
Here & Now
Listen Live

Sections

Radio

Podcasts

CitySpace

Support

Advertisement

 
Home//Radio//Here & Now

Amazon Opens Its First Brick And Mortar Store

03:40
Download

Copy the code below to embed the WBUR audio player on your site

Play
November 03, 2015
TwitterfacebookEmail
An Amazon.com employee stocks books along one of the many miles of aisles at an Amazon.com Fulfillment Center in Phoenix on December 2, 2013. Amazon just opened its first brick and mortar store in Seattle today. (Ross D. Franklin/AP Photo)
An Amazon.com employee stocks books along one of the many miles of aisles at an Amazon.com Fulfillment Center in Phoenix on December 2, 2013. Amazon just opened its first brick and mortar store in Seattle today. (Ross D. Franklin/AP Photo)
This article is more than 7 years old.

After some murmurs that the online retail giant would do so, Amazon opens its first brick and mortar store, a bookstore, Tuesday in Seattle's University Village. Barnes & Noble closed its store in this area in 2011, facing pressure from online retailers just like Amazon.

Jason Bellini of the Wall Street Journal speaks with Here & Now's Robin Young about why the online giant is opening a physical store.

Guest

This segment aired on November 3, 2015.

Advertisement

 
Play
Listen Live
Loading...
/00:00
Close