After relatively unremarkable experiments with small bookstores and shops selling miscellaneous well-rated goods (not to mention abandoned efforts at campus pick-up venues and mall pop-ups), next Amazon “plans to open several large physical retail locations…that will operate akin to department stores,” the WSJ reported. Early Amazon department stores are expected in Ohio and California, according to their sources, running around 30,000 square feet (or about the average size of book superstores in their heyday). The initiative has been in the works for some time: “Amazon approached some U.S. apparel brands roughly two years ago with the idea of opening large-scale […]