Amazon.com
February 12, 2018 at 12:54 pm
Amazon.com is preparing to launch a delivery service for businesses, positioning it to compete directly with UPS and FedEx, according to a Feb. 9 Reuters report. Dubbed "Shipping with Amazon," or SWA, the new service will enable the online retail giant to pick up packages from businesses and ship them to consumers. Amazon will roll out…
January 29, 2018 at 11:57 am
Staples announced Friday that it's replacing Shira Goodman, its current chief executive officer, with J. Alexander (Sandy) Douglas, who most recently was president of Coca-Cola North America. The move takes place less than a year after private equity firm Sycamore Partners acquired control of the office products retailer. At Coca-Cola, Douglas led the $10 billion revenue business,…
January 22, 2018 at 11:14 am
Amazon.com on Monday will open Amazon Go, its automated grocery store in Seattle, to the public. The store replaces cashiers with a checkout-free shopping experience made with with what Amazon calls "Just Walk Out" technology that uses computer vision, deep learning algorithms and sensor fusion — many of the same advances being used to develop autonomous…
January 19, 2018 at 12:54 pm
Amazon.com said today that it's raising its monthly Prime membership rates. The premium membership that grants faster shipping and access to Amazon Video will now cost $12.99 per month, up from $10.99, an 18 percent increase. Amazon is also increasing the discounted student monthly rate from $5.49 to $6.49 per month for new sign-ups.The cost…
January 18, 2018 at 1:56 pm
Amazon.com has released a "short" list of cities it's considering for its second headquarters. The 20 potential cities include Atlanta; Austin; Boston; Chicago; Columbus, Ohio; Dallas; Denver; Indianapolis; Los Angeles; Miami; Montgomery County in Maryland; Nashville; Newark; New York City; Northern Virginia; Philadelphia; Pittsburgh; Raleigh; Toronto; and Washington D.C. Last year, Amazon received bids from 238…
January 3, 2018 at 11:19 am
Amazon.com is upping its virtual reality game. CNBC reports Amazon has patented a blended-reality mirror that lets you try on clothes virtually while placing you into a virtual location. The imagined mirror works by scanning the environment to generate a virtual model, and then identifies the face and eyes of the user to determine which objects…
December 20, 2017 at 2:28 pm
Seventy-six percent of Americans shopping online this holiday season expect to do most of that shopping on Amazon.com, according to the results of CNBC's All-America Economic Survey for the fourth quarter, which was released this week. CNBC surveyed 800 adults from Dec. 10 - Dec. 13 to get their views on the state of the…
December 20, 2017 at 11:38 am
Amazon.com is in the news again. The online retail leader is in constant innovation mode, thus creating tons of turmoil and generating headline after headline. There’s no question about it — everyone is talking about Amazon. The question for retailers is, "Why should we care?" We should care about Amazon because it’s a harbinger of…
December 18, 2017 at 1:32 pm
Amazon Prime growth is plateauing in the U.S., showing the first signs of a slowdown in its oldest market, Morgan Stanley wrote in a note published last week. Prime, a paid membership program that offers free two-day shipping and access to other perks such as online video and music to consumers for $99 a year,…
December 11, 2017 at 1:45 pm
Amazon.com is leading the way in consumer electronics (CE) holiday paid search spend, according to a report from search intelligence provider Adthena. Adthena analyzed the search engine marketing activities of 179 CE retailers such as Amazon, Wal-Mart, Target and Best Buy over a two-month period, October-November 2017. More than 370,000 search ads were analyzed. According…
