Ready to shop Amazon.com � at your local strip mall?
The online retail giant has been awarded a patent for a small-store building design, according to Web site Tech Flash, setting off speculation that Amazon is looking to launch a brick-and-mortar presence.
�What�s Amazon�s strategy here?�
wrote Eric Engleman of Tech Flash May 26
. �Amazon briefly experimented with pickup locations for its Amazon Fresh grocery delivery service in the Seattle area, and the black and white images submitted with the patent application look a like those pickup stations.�
The pictures accompanying the patent application show a single-story structure with one door and an overhead awning. via homemediamagazine