Amazon has announced it is expanding its partnership with Air Transport Services Group (ATSG) and will lease an additional 10 aircraft from the company. Launched in 2016, Amazon Air initially leased 40 Boeing 767 freighter aircraft, with 20 from ATSG. The 10 additional cargo planes...
Instacart will have to conquer the grocery-delivery business without the help of Amazon. That’s one take on the news Thursday (Dec. 13) that Instacart has begun the process of winding down deliveries to customers of Amazon-owned Whole Foods. That wasn’t perhaps the most surprising news,...
Amazon announced that delivery from Whole Foods Market is now available in 63 cities, with plans for continued expansion across the U.S. throughout 2018. Prime Now members in Albuquerque, Birmingham, Boise, Charleston, Colorado Springs, Hartford, Kansas City, Providence, Salt Lake City and Stamford, as well...
Amazon is partnering with startup CargoX on a pilot program that will use bulletproof trucks for the delivery of expensive goods in Brazil. Bloomberg cited a source who revealed that the eCommerce giant is working on the logistics project with Goldman Sachs-backed CargoX, which connects...
Amazon announced on Wednesday (Sept. 5) that it is ordering 20,000 Mercedes Benz vans to expand its delivery fleet. According to The Wall Street Journal, citing Amazon, the vans will also be used for small businesses to carry an excess supply of packages. Judging by...
Amazon.com has come up with a new way to ensure packages arrive safely on customers’ doorsteps — it is incentivizing entrepreneurs to launch their own delivery businesses. Citing comments Amazon made at a press event in Seattle, Washington, Reuters reported Amazon said it wants to lease...
Remember that old saying, “You break it, you bought it?” A tweak on that might read: “You click on it, you bought it.” Or, in simpler language: “That’s enough.” So says Amazon, it seems, when it comes to returning items bought from the site. The...
Sprouts Farmers Market announced that it has ended its Prime Now delivery partnership with Amazon. According to Reuters, the partnership ended on May 1. In addition, the U.S. supermarket chain cut its full-year sales targets. The news sent Sprouts’ shares down almost 12 percent. The...
Marking the seventh city for the Prime Now service, Amazon and Whole Foods Market have launched two-hour grocery delivery for Amazon Prime members in Los Angeles. The service also covers the city’s surrounding suburbs, Supermarket News reported. Whole Foods Executive Vice President of Operations Christina Minardi...
