Amazon in retail stores doing experiment with physical store location.
Nice article by Ron Bowers - As a company devoted to improving physical store environments and customer experience we embrace the authors' point that "stores can't simply be places where products happen to be sold." Future store configurations will have to be places that promote customer learning and experimentation.
Home Depot is acting more like a multichannel retailer and less like a home-improvement warehouse. Plus strategic purchase of BlackLocus and RedBeacon.