Amazon 4-star store opens in Frisco's Stonebriar Centre

An Amazon 4-star store opens in Stonebriar Centre.

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By Lindsey Juarez | 8:24 AM Nov 6, 2019 CST | Updated 4:24 PM Nov 6, 2019 CST

An Amazon 4-star store opened Nov. 6 in Stonebriar Centre, 2601 Preston Road, Ste. 1046, Frisco. The store offers products that are top sellers, have received four or more stars, or are new and trending. Products include books, games, electronics, toys and kitchen and home goods. Customers can also test Amazon devices—such as Echo, Kindle, and Fire TV products—in the store. This is the company’s first 4-star store in Texas. www.amazon.com

By Lindsey Juarez

Lindsey has been involved in newspapers in some form since high school. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2014 with a degree in Journalism. While attending UTA, she worked for The Shorthorn, the university's award-winning student newspaper. She was hired as Community Impact Newspaper's first Frisco reporter in 2014. Less than a year later, she took over as the editor of the Frisco edition. Since then, she has covered a variety of topics and issues important to the community, including the city's affordable housing shortage, the state's controversial A-F school accountability system and the city's "Bury the Lines" efforts.

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