From book shop to tat bazaar to cloud behemoth to grocer, what's Amazon up to now? Augmented-reality hairstyles

Though Smaug-like CEO Jeff Bezos is famously a hairless wonder, Amazon is striking out into yet more new territory with a London salon. So that's book shop cum everything shop cum cloud powerhouse cum grocer cum hair stylist. Amazon first made its bricks-and-mortar presence known after its purchase of US grocer Whole Foods …

[b0llchit]

Mirror, mirror on the head

If hair were money, then Bezos' style would be a one-click adventure and we'd all have a polished mirror on top.

I'm sure he is currently speculating to monetize hairy and reflectory affairs in a consistent way.

[Blackjack]

[So that's book shop cum everything shop cum cloud powerhouse cum grocer cum hair stylist.]

Hi, it looks like you bought a porn movie two years ago, would you like to buy one now?

No; I want a pizza.

PIZZA HOTTIES 2 has been ordered; delivery in 90 years unless you buy Amazon Ultra Super Plus Gold We Own Your Soul Hyper Munchies.

[Chris G]

I haven't even seen Pizza Hotties One yet, where can I get a copy?

Next time I am in the City, might give the Bezos bouffant house a visit, I've had the same hairstyle for fifty odd years, maybe it's time for a purple afro or Mohican.

[Graham Cunningham]

+1 for the sub-title.

[Gerhard den Hollander]

A cut above the rest

Hairkut 2000

[IGnatius T Foobar !]

Smaug? How about Blofeld?

Jeff Bezos is just a facial scar and a persian cat away from looking like a Bond villain.

[Roger Kynaston]

Re: Smaug? How about Blofeld?

My name is Jeffrey Preston Bezos. Please let me introduce you to my assistant Alexa.

[Warm Braw]

Located ... in trendy Spitalfields

I'd have held out for New Barnet.

[Anonymous Coward]

IIRC there used to be a DOS based system that did much the same thing. (I worked for the company that imported the frame buffer cards into the UK, and had to provide support!)