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What it's like to shop in Amazon's version of the convenience store

Published Thu, Aug 17, 2017 · 09:50 PM

Berkeley, California

AMAZON has been aggressively courting students as part of its experiment to bring its enormous online shopping operation into the bricks-and-mortar world.

Now, the company is launching Amazon Instant Pickup, a service that allows customers to order certain items from their smartphones for pick-up within minutes of purchase. Essentially, Amazon has launched its own version of the convenience store.

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