Amazon is closing physical stores Amazon Books, Amazon 4-Star, and Amazon Pop Up, Reuters first reported. The e-commerce giant has struggled to replicate its online success in brick-and-mortar retail.

NEW YORK — Amazon is closing all of its brick-and-mortar bookstores, as well as its 4-star shops and pop-up locations, as the online retail behemoth reworks its physical footprint.

Amazon will permanently close 68 physical retail locations, including all of its Amazon 4-star, Books, and Pop Up stores, in a surprising twist for the tech giant’s bricks-and-mortar ambitions.

Amazon’s physical retail business is suffering a major blow as the company today confirmed to Reuters it will close 68 brick-and-mortar retail stores across the U.S. and U.K. This includes its ...

Amazon on Thursday swung open the doors to its latest store concept, called Amazon 4-star. It's only one store in Manhattan, but judging by the commotion on day one, people were certainly ...

The company's first physical location opened in 2015 with a book store in its hometown of Seattle, Washington. It went on to open its 4-star concept, where everything for sale was rated 4 stars or ...

Amazon 4-star only offers products with high customer ratings. Items must be a top seller, have a four-star rating or above or be new and trending on Amazon.com.

The Amazon 4-star shop, located in the popular Bluewater shopping mall near Dartford, just outside London, opened this morning and offers around 2,000 of its most popular and best-rated products ...

Amazon is closing all 68 of its Amazon Books, Amazon 4-Star, and Amazon Pop Up physical retail stores, as the company refocuses its efforts on grocery and fashion locations (like Amazon Fresh ...

Amazon is rethinking its retail ambitions after years of expansion. The company informed Reuters it was closing all 68 of its physical bookstores , pop-up locations and 4-star shops in the US and UK.

Amazon opened its first bricks-and-mortar bookstore in 2015, two decades after it began selling books online and helped drive a number of bookshops out of business. Amazon’s 4-star shops, which ...