Amazon Opens First Brick-and-Mortar Clothing Store Near LA (bloomberg.com) 15
Amazon is opening its first physical clothing store on Wednesday, the latest brick-and-mortar initiative from the world's largest online retailer. From a report: Called Amazon Style, the shop is located in Glendale, California, near Los Angeles. The Seattle-based company has pledged to open stores only when it has something original to offer customers. In Style's case, the new wrinkle is an app that lets shoppers scan codes on displayed items, which employees fetch in the right size or color and then send to a fitting room or checkout counter. Amazon has built a giant e-commerce business selling basic clothing items like packs of t-shirts. But it has had less success courting fashion brands, which have long balked at counterfeits on Amazon's third-party marketplace.
Amazon never had to deal with shoplifting before (Score:2)
Hey, Boots Riley, lead singer of The Coup and Director of "Sorry to Bother You," what's your take on this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
You, too, can dress like Jeff! (Score:2)
Now they just have to recruit some shoplifters who want to dress like Jeff Bezos?
Not a case where dressing for success is going to help. (Trying to imagine why anyone would want to be like that... Obviously I don't like money enough.)
But my new earworm meme is "Trauma Considered as a Helix of Semi-Valid Tweets", and from that perspective, Amazon is actually one of the nicer corners of the Interet. Triggered by "The Body Keeps the Score" by Bessel van der Kolk, but the idea is that the economic models domina
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You're right. They only dealt with people ransacking and looting their trucks.
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I thought it was just me. It seems thinner and harder to read. The average age of a Slashdot poster is late-40's, we need some bigger and bolder fonts not skinny little fonts.
Once again, we wait (Score:2)
Apparently people have all the time in the world to stand around and do nothing. Like calling an Uber or Lyft cab rather than simply driving there yourself (assuming you don't live in a city where driving is a nightmare).
There was a store called Best that was near where I grew up. I could ride my bike to it. They had a
missing the point (Score:3)
the only reason I shop on amazon is so that I don't have to go to a fucking store
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Except clothing is something you pretty much have to go to a store.
Because buying on size is really hard - pretty much I've seen people ordering clothes order the same item in 5 different sizes, then return the 4 that don't fit well. Unfortunately, returns at Amazon mean the item pretty much get landfilled, so basically Amazon is running through 5 times as many clothes as someone who could try it on in a store.
And that's not in
I am nudist... (Score:2)
Sizes (Score:2)
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I bought 2 pairs of different Amazon jeans at different times. They both smelled like poop. There is some chemical used to preserve their jeans and reduce dye bleeding, and it smells like poop. If you are wearing amazon jeans, then chances are that people think that you poo'd yourself. I washed the jeans 6 times with a variety of different solutions and none helped. The jeans themselves are made from a nice demon, but the smell is a no-go.
To be fair, Levi also has the same problem with a few of their dyes,
Mortars (Score:2)
Are mortars allowed under the 2nd amendment?
The 60mm calibre type are small enough the be carried by 1 person.
Scan the Code (Score:2)
"...an app that lets shoppers scan codes on displayed items..."
Since I have so far avoided having a cell phone, I will not be shopping at Amazon's store.
Wow, that's interesting (Score:1)