What we know of the current Amazon technology is bad enough that Amazon keeps closing stores. It's just not profitable enough to keep them open.
Now, maybe what they're thinking is that these stores were just a training exercise and known to be unprofitable from Day One, and now those training exercises are over so they can start shutting them down. Dunno -- I have no inside information on this.
But I wouldn't be looking to Amazon to solve all these problems for all the retailers. At least, not until they can come out with better technology.
