Campus Amazon ‘Pick Up’ Store? Yes, Please!
Making life just a little bit easier.
From Fortune:
An Amazon ‘pick-up’ store may be coming to a college near you
E-commerce giant Amazon plans to open more customer service outlets near college campuses so students can pick up their orders, according to several job listings on the company’s website.
Students at University of California at Berkeley, University of California at Santa Barbara, and the University of Cincinnati will soon be able to visit physical Amazon stores on or near campus to get their packages. Amazon already has similar outlets at University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Purdue University.
The program, Campus Pick-up Point, premiered in February as a convenience for students who live in dorms or apartments, where receiving packages can be difficult. It also increases Amazon’s visibility among an important demographic that often shops online for textbooks and their necessities.
Students at colleges can choose to have orders delivered to a nearby Amazon center in one of two ways. They can either go the counter to pick up their package or retrieve it from a self-service locker that can be opened using a security code.