After acquiring Whole Foods in 2017, it appears Amazon is making the same moves the grocer would have made on its own to face increasing competition — only faster, a former Whole Foods board member recently told CNBC. “What is Amazon doing that Whole Foods wasn’t going...
Prices are rising at Amazon. Monthly Prime membership costs went up a few days ago. Now, adding to the list, sellers in two of Amazon’s most popular categories will be facing some higher costs as well. According to reports from Chain Store Age, seller fees...
Amazon’s first foray into the convenience store market, Amazon Go, opened on Monday (Jan. 22) at its headquarters in Seattle, Washington. According to a report in Recode, the store, which was in development for five years, will be located on the ground floor of the...
Amazon has set its sights on the grocery food market – and in order to make it another one of its $10 billion businesses, it’s going to need to expand. That’s according to The Motley Fool, which wrote in a report this past weekend, citing...
Two years after Amazon launched monthly Prime memberships, the eCommerce retailer is increasing its monthly membership fees by nearly 20 percent, Recode reported. The monthly fee for Amazon Prime will jump from $10.99 to $12.99 in the U.S., which works out to an increase of...
The finalists are in, and Amazon has chosen its list of the 20 cities still in the running to be the home of its second headquarters (HQ2), according to Bloomberg reports. Austin, Boston, New York and D.C. all made the cut, as did some surprises...
The concept behind the Amazon Dash button is simple — whatever household good one is out of (think detergent, Doritos), just hit the appropriate Dash button and await its arrival. The problem, of course, is that one ends up with dozens of little Dash buttons...
Whole Foods’ private-label brand is aiding sales at Amazon’s online grocery delivery service, AmazonFresh, which were up 35 percent to $135 million in the last four months of 2017, the Wall Street Journal reported. The most popular Whole Foods items on the Amazon site included...
Cities and states around the country are vying to become home to Amazon’s second headquarters (HQ2), offering the company all sorts of amenities to entice it to their home areas. According to the Associated Press, though, more than 15 cities and states have refused to disclose...
