Amazon.com
December 23, 2015 at 11:20 am
With this being the last issue of Total Retail Report of 2015 (it returns on Mon., Jan. 4), we thought it would be a good time to put together a list of our most popular content of the year. This content is ranked in order based on the number of page views. Our best wishes…
December 21, 2015 at 10:27 am
Amazon.com is negotiating to lease 20 Boeing 767 jets for its own air-delivery service, cargo-industry executives have told The Seattle Times. The online retail giant wants to build out its own cargo operations to avoid delays from carriers such as United Parcel Service, which have struggled to keep up with the rapid growth of e-commerce.…
December 9, 2015 at 11:06 am
Donald Trump's tweetstorms directed at media organizations have become commonplace in the 2016 presidential race. Seemingly out of the blue, The Donald takes to Twitter to bash his chosen media opponent of the day. He sends an eruption of tweets, then goes silent. On Monday, Trump's ire was directed at The Washington Post and, more specifically,…
December 7, 2015 at 10:18 am
For Pawstruck.com, on online retailer of natural dog treats and chews, selling via third-party marketplaces, most notably Amazon.com, is critical to its business. During the holidays, when Pawstruck's sales ramp up on both its own site and on Amazon, ensuring that its products are well stocked is a top priority. In episode 15 of Total…
December 7, 2015 at 9:56 am
Amazon.com goes to great lengths to get packages into customers’ hands as quickly as possible — even if it means employing drones. Those efforts will now include putting thousands of Amazon-branded trucks on the road. The ever-ambitious online retailer planned to announce on Friday morning that it had purchased “thousands” of trailers — the part…
December 4, 2015 at 10:10 am
Amazon.com’s Prime keeps attracting more and more members, and new data from Wall Street firm Cowen & Co suggests the subscription service is getting stickier, posing a more intense threat to traditional retailers trying to claw back market share. The survey suggests Amazon Prime is drawing younger and wealthier shoppers who are now using the…
November 19, 2015 at 11:58 am
Rolling out Black Friday deals every 10 minutes apparently wasn't enough for Amazon.com. Starting Friday and running through the day after Thanksgiving, the online retailer will one-up itself by adding new holiday deals as often as every five minutes. That compares to last season, when it launched a new promotion every 10 minutes.
November 13, 2015 at 10:00 am
Fundamental data such as sales and category share is the lifeblood of today’s best-performing brands in the brick-and-mortar world. Their long-term strategies and everyday execution — for example, knowing which categories and retailers they should be under- or overinvesting in — are measured and closely managed by these critical indicators. However, despite the exponential growth…
November 4, 2015 at 12:33 pm
Amazon.com has boosted its maternity benefit to up to 20 weeks of paid leave for new birth mothers, joining a growing number of tech companies expanding benefits to retain hard-to-find technical talent. The company sent an internal email Monday outlining the changes, which take effect Jan. 1 and apply to babies born or adopted since Oct.…
November 3, 2015 at 10:35 am
Bookstore owners often think of Amazon.com as the enemy. Now it’s becoming one of them. On Tuesday morning, the online retail giant opened its first-ever brick-and-mortar store in its 20-year life, in the University Village neighborhood of Seattle. The store, called Amazon Books, looks a lot like bookstores that populate malls across the country.
