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Amazon.com, Inc., is advertising for an assistant store manager for what the San Francisco Business Times calls a “bricks and mortar” store to be located in Berkeley.

A source within the University of California administration reports that the store will be located in the new ASUC Student Union building on the University of California at Berkeley campus. 

The person hired, according to the advertisement, “will be responsible for the inventory of all packages, end-to-end flow of packages from when it enters the site to when it is placed for customer pickup; and all outbound processes including customer returns and abandoned packages.” He or she will manage one or two full-time and four to eight part-time staffers at the site. 

The main activity will probably be delivery of products of all kinds which have been ordered from Amazon over the internet. 

A similar facility was started at UC Davis in January of 2014. 

The Sacramento Bee reported that Davis signed a five-year agreement with Amazon in October of 2014 for a co-branded website. Amazon pays the university between 0.5 and 2.25 percent of gross sales, and Amazon has a no-rent campus location where students can pick up their purchases. 

The National Association of College Stores Inc. — a nonprofit trade organization representing more than 3,000 campus retail stores worldwide—sued Purdue University, where an Amazon store opened in Febuary of 2015, in an attempt to learn details of the university’s deal with Amazon, which attorneys said had been disclosed regarding the Davis contract. 

Details of Amazon’s contract with UC Berkeley have not been revealed. 

A call to Kelsey Finn, executive director of the ASUC Student Union, has not been returned.