Amazon Prime Day as prime opportunity for credit unions? Billions of dollars of spending activity will mark the annual promotional event, which kicked off Monday (July 15) and which now extends to two days — a full 48 hours and up from last year’s 36...
Subscriptions to Amazon Prime have been slowing down in the lead-up to Prime Day 2019, which is typically Amazon’s biggest shopping day of the year, according to a report by Fortune. At the end of last month, there was a total of 105 million Prime...
The National Health Service (NHS) in the U.K. has teamed up with Amazon to provide medical advice for a variety of ailments, in an effort to cut down on hospital costs, according to a report by Reuters. Amazon’s artificial intelligence (AI)-powered voice assistant Alexa will offer...
Amazon is expanding its anti-counterfeiting program, called Transparency, to Europe, India and Canada, according to a report by TechCrunch. The program works by adding a T-shaped QR-like code to items to serialize them and help to identify when the item is fake, both on Amazon’s...
Kohl’s has announced that Amazon Returns is now available at more than 1,100 Kohl’s stores nationwide. “The nationwide rollout of the Amazon Returns program is our single biggest initiative of the year,” said Michelle Gass, Kohl’s chief executive officer in a statement. “Our top strategic...
Cameras reportedly are taking a more important place in the world of grocery, perhaps to the detriment of cashiers. That’s according to The Wall Street Journal, which said that the technology, “pioneered” by Amazon for its Amazon Go grocery stores, will allow such merchants to...
The competition regulator in the U.K. has officially stepped into Amazon’s investment in online food delivery group Deliveroo and decided it needs to be paused until it can complete an investigation. Amazon was the leading force behind a $575 million fundraising round for Deliveroo in...
With this year’s Prime Day approaching, Amazon is reportedly charging “additional funding” to some brands in the grocery space during Prime Day in the event that sales of their promotional items cause a loss for the eCommerce retailer. The shift was reportedly created to “fund...
Amazon has confirmed that it keeps Alexa voice data with no intention to delete it unless done so by a customer, and also that it keeps some voice data regardless of whether it was deleted or not, according to reports. U.S. Senator Chris Coons sent...
