With Amazon opening its 4th book store one has to wonder why is it going against the wave it helped create and that brick & mortar retailers are frantically trying to catch-up of closing their stores and shifting their business on-line. Could it be now that Amazon has wrought almost absolute destruction on brick & mortars it is looking to fill specific voids. Or, if history is any indicator, then perhaps the stores are more of a Trojan Horse. Like its initial foray as an on-line bookstore Amazon has since expanded its product portfolio to include a vast array of items from cloud computing, publishing, mobile devices, content creation and oh yes..selling a wide variety of products on its web-site (not just books) could Amazon actually be looking at these stores as a springboard to launch other businesses (think fee-based wi-fi access, built-in cell towers to create a mobile carrier network, small-biz local cloud storage solutions..etc). Or it could be just one tremendous head-fake. Either way Amazon certainly will be in the heads of rival executives leaving them guessing as to..what..is..next.
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In the face of global growth a competitor founded just down the road in the 800 lb. gorilla in QSR known as McDonald’s, not even with the onslaught of the better-for-you burger brands like Shake Shack and in spite of a comparable small geographic footprint In-N-Out Burger has built a cult-like following by maintaining a laser focus on its brand identity of keeping things simple, maniacally executed against that promise and providing a dash of secret menus. https://www.qsrmagazine.com/competition/secret-n-out-s-cult-following?utm_campaign=20170814&utm_medium=email&utm_source=jolt
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