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Amazon Is Opening a New Store That Sells Items From Its Website Rated 4 Stars and Above (cnbc.com)
Amazon is opening a new store in New York City that sells items from its website rated 4 stars or above. The company appears to be making a bigger push into brick-and-mortar retail following its acquisition of Whole Foods and the gradual rollout of its cashier-less convenience stores. CNBC reports: The store is set to open this Thursday in New York's SoHo neighborhood, on 72 Spring Street. The company said Amazon Prime members will pay "the Amazon.com price" when they shop there. An Amazon spokeswoman said the store is permanent, not a pop-up location, as some of its shops -- including one that sold Calvin Klein merchandise in SoHo last year -- have been before.
Amazon said customers will find items like a mini skillet, card games and many of the company's own electronic devices including the Echo Spot and Fire TV Stick, in the new store, called Amazon 4-star. It said it will also include some "Trending Around NYC" items there, which Amazon is able to track on its website. Amazon said digital price tags in the new store will show how much Prime members are saving, the average star rating and how many ratings a product has received, similar to what shoppers can see on the website today.
Amazon said customers will find items like a mini skillet, card games and many of the company's own electronic devices including the Echo Spot and Fire TV Stick, in the new store, called Amazon 4-star. It said it will also include some "Trending Around NYC" items there, which Amazon is able to track on its website. Amazon said digital price tags in the new store will show how much Prime members are saving, the average star rating and how many ratings a product has received, similar to what shoppers can see on the website today.
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And there’s probably lead still in some of Amazons “four star products”.
I think they are opening a new store! Do any poster READ their postings BEFORE submitting?
Yes, that funny sound you hear is the result of tons and tons of fake 4 and 5 star Amazon reviews pumping up the volume on this new store fiasco. Don't delay, buy today!
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I have seen some stores like that. Usually in a mall that isn't doing to well or near tourist schlock. It will be so convenient.
No, listen! This junk is fabulous! It's so good that we give it four stars! Four! How do we know it's four? Well, because the buyers, whoever they are, say it is. That's why only Amazon can sell Amazon four star quality! Don't look under the label.
So the will be selling Heroin and Needles then.
So, just to make sure I understand this right, the inventory will be "whatever is popular"? The success of such a location will depend very heavily on square footage. Sure, if I'm explicitly looking for a Fire Stick or Echo speaker, I can be reasonably assured I can find it. Beyond that, I may-or-may-not find what I'm looking for. Will they have bedsheets? Rakes? Ethernet Switches? Clothing? Olive oil? If the store is the size of an average Staples, that might be big enough to have some small departments with the top 100 items kept in stock...but a store filled with impulse buys and no way to know if they you need is actually there...the website seems like a better bet.
Are they still cheating/averaging the ratings towards 4 stars?
Can they open a store that only include real reviews and not fake ones?
Amazon have been caught red-handed with systematically faking 4- and 5-star ratings as well as doctoring and cooking the product reviews. You can't trust the 4 and 5 star ratings and reviews of the main Amazon store, so how can you trust a separate store containing only these? Jesus...
I like your atitude sir. :)
Now where is the next hipster millennial douche bag I can hit with a stick?
1 star: UPS driver didn't ring teh doorbell!
How come this immediately reminds me of those businesses?
Maybe "5 below, but above 4"?
With all the "direct from china" sites popping up and offering the same products for a LOT less then amazon sells their "made in china" stuff, people still use amazon?
Amazon shows up on the scene selling nothing but books and many brick and mortar book business struggle to compete. Next, Amazon moves into almost all other types of consumer goods and more brick and mortar stores struggle to compete including some big ones. Now, Amazon is moving more and more towards a brick and mortar presence. The next step is going to be something ridiculous and hilarious, like, they buy up all of the closed Toy R' Us' out there and establish an immediate presence in all 50 states and in some sort of queer circular loop of cosmic irony, all the Prime members start driving to that store to buy shit because it beats waiting one or two days to get it shipped.
Now new product review pumping can be used to assure consumers while dumping inferior products on their customers. When the reviews drop, if they are allowed to, what happens to products on the shelves.
Too many false reviews clutter Amazon. I was going to buy an item that wasn't cheap, and started reading the reviews. Lots of five star reviews, with gushing love for the Amazon Partner. Digging down, though, I found some funny stuff. A lot of the five star reviews were all posted on the exact same day. Looking into these accounts, they all reviewed the exact same products on the same days. I decided not to purchase the product from that particular amazon partner. Perhaps I overlooked it, but there didn't seem to be an obvious way to report fake reviews.
Side note, I already knew the product was top notch. I was concerned about the company selling it. Glad I looked into it.
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I think this will just get more fake reviews for bad items.