Amazon upended the US brick-and-mortar department store model built by companies like Sears and J.C. Penney. Now, the e-commerce giant reportedly has plans to open physical stores that resemble ...

The report compares the model to a department store, but, at about 30,000 square feet, the planned locations would each be a fraction of the size of most U.S. department stores.

Amazon is soon expected to open a series of department stores to sell physical products to in-person shoppers. The move will certainly disrupt the entire retail industry and further cement Amazon ...

But the department stores would be far from Amazon’s first foray into physical retail — the company built its first physical store, a bookstore, in Seattle in 2015 and has more than two dozen Amazon 4 ...

This article is more than 3 years old. SEATTLE, WA - MAY 20: People walk by an Amazon Go store at the Amazon.com Inc. headquarters on May 20, 2021 in Seattle, Washington.

At 30,000 square feet apiece, according to the insiders, the stores will be a third the size of typical department stores. They will be much larger than Amazon's existing Whole Foods stores, though.

Amazon is reportedly planning to open several large physical locations in the U.S. that are similar to department stores at around 30,000 square feet.

Amazon should be able to rent or buy locations cheaply—bankruptcies have left many department-store properties up for grabs. Yet investors may be disappointed that Amazon will devote ever more ...

Amazon’s rumored department store experiment could take a similarly high-tech approach to selling clothes as the company took with groceries, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal.