Amazon to close its Style experiment in ‘symbolic’ move
E-commerce Amazon says it will close its Style stores. With only two of them, the decision to shut the operation is not all that noteworthy in terms of scale. However, it is symbolically significant in that it represents another retreat from physical non-food retail following last year’s closure of Amazon Books and Amazon 4-Star shops. This is part and parcel of Amazon’s wider efforts to curtail ventures that it does not see as having long-term potential or that are not…