Amazon continues to expand in the college bookstore market, announcing another of their “staffed package pickup points” coming to the University of Pennsylvania campus this spring. It will be a 3,558 square foot space, “strategically located” in the university’s largest dining commons. Unlike previous pick-up stations at Purdue and UMass, it will also provide “communal work spaces with interactive media pods where students can connect their laptops and mobile devices to TV monitors for presentations, brainstorming, studying, and collaborating.” Penn vp of business services Marie Witt said the university had “discovered that almost half of all packages delivered to Penn student mail […]
