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...
Fanny Fern was the highest paid journalist in the country in 1855 because of her “witty and irreverent” tell-it-like-it-is style. Fern — a native of Portland, Maine — was paid $100 a week by The New York Ledger to produce columns about life in America to keep...
Just a few short months from the merger announcement, and as of this week, the deal is done: Amazon officially owns Whole Foods. To celebrate the news, grocery prices at Whole Foods are going down — quite an out of the gate change of direction...
Amazon has added the ability for U.K. users to pay for products and services on its eCommerce platform using cash with Amazon Top Up. According to Tech Crunch, the service allows shoppers to load between £5 and £250 into their Amazon U.K. accounts in a...
eCommerce giant Amazon has announced its multi billion dollar acquisition of brick-and-mortar retail grocer Whole Foods Market will close next week. In addition, Amazon Prime will soon be integrated into the Whole Foods point-of-sale system. In a press release, the companies said Amazon Prime Members will...
eCommerce leader Amazon is moving more deeply into the brick-and-mortar retail arena with the launch of two new physical bookstores, both of which will welcome customers this week, the Los Angeles Times reports. The first brick-and-mortar store, located in San Jose, California, has already had a soft opening...
