Amazon’s big Whole Foods Market buy is paying off, particularly when it comes to online ordering. Amazon, in celebration of its acquisition of Whole Foods Market has done what Amazon is known best for doing: cutting prices. Specifically, Amazon has cut prices on 2,000 or...
Amazon.com has issued a request for proposals (RFP) from local and state government officials as it looks to open its second headquarters (Hq2) in the U.S. In a company press release, the eCommerce giant said it will invest more than $5 billion in “construction and operation of...
Kohl’s is the latest brick-and-mortar retailer partnering with Amazon, with shoppers at designated locations soon being able to purchase some of the online retail giant’s products directly from the store. CNBC reported that the Kohl’s has unveiled plans to roll out a “smart home experience”...
U.S. Bank is teaming up with Amazon, enabling customers to complete tasks by speaking to the eCommerce giant’s voice-activated digital assistant Alexa. In a press release, U.S. Bank announced it is among the first banks in the U.S. to enable customers to complete banking tasks such...
The A$3.5 billion ($2.5 billion) sale of a 10-mall package in Australia by private equity group Blackstone has been called off. Fear of Amazon.com and its own brand of brick-and-mortar stores is at least one cited reason for killing the deal. Blackstone officially walked on...
Amazon is meeting its customers where they are. In the U.K., the eCommerce giant is letting shoppers load up their accounts using cash, and in the U.S., it’s leveraging that new partnership with Whole Foods to make picking up or returning Amazon goods even easier...
Amazon’s Alexa and Microsoft’s Cortana are now on voice command speaking terms. The companies announced news on Wednesday (Aug. 30) that owners of either company’s smart home speaker will soon be able to leverage the capabilities of the other just by asking. “The world is...
The original Amazon Echo is currently out of stock on the online retail giant’s website — a possible sign that the arrival of a new voice-activated smart speaker is imminent. According to news from TechCrunch, the original Amazon Echo just made its Whole Foods debut this...
Amazon didn’t take long before getting its popular Echo speaker in front of Whole Foods Market (WFM) customers, already rolling it out in some stores around the country. According to a news report in TechCrunch, Amazon has created displays for selling the voice-activated personal assistant Alexa-powered...
