My guess is that Amazon is going to take over all the Fry's locations.
They put most Book Stores out of business and now open Amazon Book Stores.
They put most Electronics Stores out of business and will now open Amazon Electronics Stores.
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There's only 1 Amazon Bookstore open that I'm aware of, and that's the one in Walnut Creek. Probably a test market thing or possibly a nostalgic throwback to Amazon's roots.
Also, since electronics have thin margins, it's highly, highly improbable Amazon will want to open a brick & mortar store with all the associated costs that go along with it.
Fry's is going out of business because leadership is lazy, not forward-thinking, and hire piss-poor "managers". Not that I ever did or needed to ask anyone questions about electronics, but I've heard others do so, which becomes comical because the employees have zero idea what they're talking about.
What do you mean "take over"? It's highly unlikely that Amazon is going to purchase any big box store their physical entrants into the market have been smaller storefronts in mall environments.
What would be more likely would be a partnership with physical retailers to ship from stores similar to what Google does with their Express(Now jut Shopping I believe) program, something Amazon does sort of do to an extent already with third party sellers but generally not with other traditional retailers. This doesn't seem to be where Amazon is putting it's focus right now though, instead beefing up it's traditional distribution channels.
Fry's did actually partner with Google Express for a short time but it was not profitable for many smaller transactions and they chose not to renew the contract, supposedly because Google was at that point asking for even higher fees. Fry's is now shipping web orders directly from the store themselves, though their website has less traffic. Amazon of course has far more exposure than both Google and Frys.com combined and could likely offer much better rates to partners but again the question is if they want to move in that direction, or if fleets of drones are the future.
certainly possible, but I'd say unlikely. Amazon has experimented with opening brick n' mortar stores and seem to have had mixed results. I think several have already closed. Seems like I saw an article a couple weeks ago saying Amazon wasn't planning on expanding much into irl stores for the time being.