It won’t arrive in a brown box: Online retail behemoth Amazon has decided to go pre-Internet and open a brick-and-mortar bookstore, in Seattle’s University Village. “We hope this is not our only one. But we’ll see,” an Amazon official said.
Guests will enjoy an authentic bookstore experience. Docents in period costumes will explain how bookstores functioned. And actors will portray various bookstore characters, including:
- Store owners wracked with anxiety over how they’ll pay the light bill this month;
- Customers who ask the owner for a book recommendations, and then go buy it on Amazon.
Open wide: It’s easy for moms and dads to blitz up their own homemade baby food, Casey Seidenberg of the Washington Post writes. DIY baby food generally tastes better and is more nutritious than the store-bought stuff, she says.
Unfortunately, homemade baby food also deprives dads of those little jars for screw storage in the garage.
No red M&Ms: Most Republican presidential candidates continue to demand changes to the GOP’s debates. Led by the Ben Carson camp, they’re pressing for a number of demands, one of which is a comfortable room temperature (Page A8).
Sounds like they should be served some of that homemade baby food in the green room.
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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