Amazon Is Opening A Hair Salon (not a typo)
https://www.washingtonpost.comAmazon is opening a hair salon in London, its latest push from online to bricks-and-mortar — and a move that allows it to collect more real-world consumer data in the meantime.
Over the past few years, Amazon has carefully pushed into bricks-and-mortar retail, after spending decades training customers to shop online. It built a physical bookstore in Seattle and now has roughly two dozen locations. It purchased Whole Foods Market in 2017, adding a few hundred retail locations. It has built out pop-up stores and 4-Star stores, which sell highly ranked items from the online site.
Close observers of the company speculate that it could be a play by Amazon to continue its foray into computer vision, a technology it already uses to track shoppers in its Amazon Go convenience stores.
