本文摘要：The world’s largest e-commerce company is finally going to embrace bricks and mortar.全球仅次于的电子商务公司亚马逊（Amazon）再一要进实体店了。

The world’s largest e-commerce company is finally going to embrace bricks and mortar.全球仅次于的电子商务公司亚马逊（Amazon）再一要进实体店了。The Wall Street Journal on Thursday reported that Amazon.com AMZN -2.27% will open its first physical store in New York in time for the holiday shopping season, citing people familiar with its plans.《华尔街日报》（Wall Street Journal）本周四报导，据消息人士称之为，亚马逊公司将在纽约开办首家实体店，开业时间正好选在今年的圣诞购物季之前。

The store would be located on 34th Street in Manhattan, close to a shopping district that includes Macy’s M -2.73% flagship and serve as a mini-warehouse, with limited assortment used for same-day delivery within New York, returns and exchanges, and pickups of online orders, according to the Journal’s report.这家店的方位在曼哈顿的34号街，附近的商圈有还包括梅西百货（Macy’s）分店在内的许多大品牌，同时这家实体店也将起着一个小仓库的起到，向纽约市内发送到一部分当日递送的租车，并获取退换货和到店取货服务。Amazon was not immediately available for comment.我们没能及时联系到亚马逊对此事公开发表评论。SucharitaMulpuru, an e-commerce analyst at Forrester Research, tells the Fortune the space sounds “closer to a post-office” than a retail store and that it remains to be seen what economic boost the location will provide to the company.福雷斯兹研究公司（Forrester Research）的电子商务分析师苏察雷塔o马尔波罗对《财富》（Fortune）回应，这家门店对亚马逊的起到或许“更加像一家邮局”，而不是零售店，这家门店对亚马逊将产生怎样的经济推动力，还有待仔细观察。

“They need to figure out what resonates with shoppers with respect to Amazon in a physical store,” Mulpuru says. “Do they want to look at product? Do they just want to pick up product? Do they want to look at Amazon electronics equipment?”马尔波罗回应：“他们必须摸明白，对于一家实体店来说，什么才能让消费者产生共鸣。他们是想要看产品还是只想起店取货？他们想要看亚马逊出产的电子设备吗？”Sources told the Journal that Amazon might use the space to showcase its own devices like the Kindle e-readers, Fire smartphone or Fire TV set-top box. If the New York store works out, it could serve as a model for a rollout to other U.S. cities, the Journal’s sources said.消息人士对《华尔街日报》透漏，亚马逊可能会利用这家门店展出自家的电子设备，比如Kindle系列电子书阅读器、Fire智能手机和Fire电视机顶盒等等。如果纽约的实体店取得了顺利，这个模式可能会被推展到美国其他城市。

The news comes at a time traditional brick and mortar chains like Macy’s and Neiman Marcus are testing same-day delivery, while others are trying out a service offered by Google. GOOG -2.03% It also comes as those physical retailers get nimbler at using merchandise in their hundreds of stores to speed up delivery, turning them into de facto distribution centers to help them compete with the Amazon facilities that dot the country. For example, Macy’s is now using all 800 or so of its stores to help its online efforts, while others like Target TGT -1.93% are gearing up for that capability.就在亚马逊筹划开办实体店的同时，像梅西百货和内曼百库斯百货（Neiman Marcus）等传统的实体连锁店正在试水当日火速，还有一些企业正在试用谷歌（Google）获取的租车服务。有些实体连锁店还利用旗下几百家门店里的货物来减缓发货速度，这样一来，这些门店在或许上就出了“配货中心”，以此与霸主美国的亚马逊抗衡。比如梅西百货的全部800余家门店都参予到了它的在线业务中，塔吉特百货（Target）等其它商家也在加快提高这一能力。

A number of online-only retailers have experimented with physical stores of late, showing the enduring value of brick-and-mortar locations. They include eyewear retailer Warby Parker, Bonobos, Birchbox, and Rent-the-Runway.近来，有数一批网商争相试水实体业务，指出实体店仍然具备不能代替的价值。其中还包括眼镜零售商沃比派克（Warby Parker）以及Bonobos、Birchbox和服装出租服务Rent-the-Runway等。

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