The Dash buttons, and the easy click-based commerce that comes with them, are growing fast. Amazon has reported seeing “exponential growth” with Dash — and it plans to keep on growing it to match consumer demand. As of Monday, Amazon had released 60 new Dash...
Holiday sales this year will be predominantly driven by Amazon. That’s according to research released by ChannelAdvisor and Morar Consulting. PYMNTS reported recently that holiday online sales will be at an all-time high this year. Many eRetailers (55 percent) are expecting to generate their lion’s share...
Would consumers pay more for Prime if they were offered an option to buy it by the month instead of by the year? That was the question when Amazon introduced its $10.99 per month version of its Prime membership program — and the answer is apparently...
Amazon’s reach may be much bigger than anyone thinks, according to new original reporting by USA Today, and that could mean very big things for the shape of retail in the United States to come. Amazon’s yearly sales represent about 15 percent of total online sales...
Amazon is not kidding around when it comes to the hires it is making in its up-and-coming grocery delivery operation. Longtime Amazonian Ben Hartman has been chosen to run AmazonFresh. Hartman was most recently the technical adviser or “shadow” to Jeff Wilke, CEO of Amazon’s...
Amazon wants to get more into the grocery business and is reportedly gearing up to launch convenience stores and curbside pickup locations. According to The Wall Street Journal, which cited people familiar with the matter, Amazon wants to build brick-and-mortar stores that will sell perishable...
Amazon’s added yet another perk for its Prime subscribers: A monthly membership to its AmazonFresh delivery service will now only cost Prime membership holders $14.99 per month. AmazonFresh currently costs most users a $299 annual fee for unlimited delivery service, which works out to a...
Amazon announced on Wednesday (Oct. 5) the introduction of Prime Reading, a new reading benefit available for U.S.-based Prime members. With the new benefit, Prime members can get access to unlimited reading from a rotating selection of books, magazines, comics and more without paying an additional cost....
Amazon appears to be behind the construction of a new drive-up grocery store being built in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood, at least, according to an online report citing city permitting records. The project was first reported on in August of this year, initially referred to as...