Meet the Guy Behind Amazon’s Secret Retail Store Plans

The man behind the Kindle is leading Amazon’s project to create the retail stores of the future. And bookstores are just the beginning.

These are two of the new details Re/code has uncovered about Amazon’s plans for expansion into physical retail. They come a day after the CEO of a large shopping mall company said he believed Amazon was planning on opening 300 to 400 bookstores, sending panic through the retail industry. Here’s what else we found.