I'm not exactly happy to hear this, but I'm also not at all surprised. After reading through some of the comments here, apparently the thing that I went to was

I'm not exactly happy to hear this, but I'm also not at all surprised. After reading through some of the comments here, apparently the thing that I went to was some kind of Amazon mall "kiosk", not a proper store. Whatever it was that I went to, it was just incredibly creepy. It was just a bunch of kindles and Alexa's crammed into this little area, with no one around, hidden away in a weird area of the mall. I imagine it was supposed to have "go" associated to it in some way? There was no information I saw anywhere indicating how any of it was supposed to work. I didn't any sort of cash register or obvious spot where an employee would be. The whole thing was really just gross. It felt like, if you were to see a purse in the middle of the street with fists full of dollar bills sticking out of it with no one around. It's like someone put it there, specifically with the intention of them wanting you to take it. It's like it's accusing you. It was this disgusting sensation of being monitored in a way that was outright nauseating. I can't really describe it. If you've ever gone to a gas station or some other place, and are trying to pay for something, and the cashier comes out 5 to 10 minutes later from the bathroom, it was kind of like that, but without the relief of seeing a human after a few minutes. Now picture that, but in a small square space without walls, or signs of life. It's like no one's been there in months. That's what that location felt like. Anyway, if these Amazon stores were anything like that, I'm hardly surprised they didn't do so well. I'm not a huge fan of the idea of being treated like a criminal, just by entering a store. The names sound like they could have used some serious rethinking, too. My first assumption after hearing the term Amazon "4-star" is that it's not supposed to be very good. 5 stars is good, so if it's only 4 it's low quality products only. Was it meant to be a "high end" dollar store? If so, why wouldn't I just go to the dollar store instead? I'm sure they have their reasons, I'm not vain enough to think I'm smarter than the people who made these decisions, but I can't imagine why they bothered, or if in doing so, why they made such weird decisions.