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Amazon Sharing Its Movie and TV Offerings With Third Parties
May 08, 2023

Amazon originals like “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” are no longer just part of Amazon Prime. The company on Monday (May 8) announced the launch of a new business that will distribute its movies and TV shows to media outlets beyond Prime. According to a news...

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Amazon Taps Tech Partnerships to Enter the Restaurant Biz
May 05, 2023

Amazon is quietly making its way back into the restaurant space through partnerships and investments. In recent months, the eCommerce giant has been leveraging its voice assistant devices and the central role these can play in consumers’ day-to-day at-home routines to establish a role in...

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Amazon Fresh Goes Stale as New Grocery Options Considered
April 28, 2023

As Amazon continues its brick-and-mortar grocery efforts, it seems likelier that Amazon Fresh is history. On a call with analysts discussing the eCommerce giant’s first-quarter financial results Thursday (April 27), CEO Andy Jassy built upon other recent intimations that the company’s mass-market brick-and-mortar Amazon Fresh grocery brand may be soon replaced...

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Amazon’s Third-Party Seller Services Segment Logs 20% Growth
April 27, 2023

Amazon’s results showed slowing eCommerce growth, but the firm logged double-digit gains in third-party seller services as it continues to build out its ecosystem. As detailed in the company’s earnings release, net sales at online stores were up 3%, at $51.1 billion. Nearly 26 million...

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Amazon Eyes TV, Movie Projects for MGM Titles Like ‘Legally Blonde’ and ‘Robocop’
April 14, 2023

A year after acquiring MGM, Amazon Studios reportedly looks at new projects based on its intellectual property. Several film and television projects based on the movie and television studio’s properties are in discussions or development, Deadline reported Friday (April 14), citing unnamed sources. There are early discussions...

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Amazon Touts Center-Aisle Grocery Selection 99X Larger Than Average Supermarket
April 14, 2023

Amazon is leveraging its extensive eCommerce marketplace to eat away at grocers’ center-aisle sales. The eCommerce giant’s annual report highlights the opportunity that the $800 billion U.S. grocery market poses, drawing visits three to four times a week per household on average. “Amazon has built...

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Amazon’s Annual Report: Third-Party Sellers, Healthcare, AI Help Forge Digital Economy
April 13, 2023

Earnings season begins anew. Along with the deluge of reports, conference calls and Securities and Exchange Commission filings, there’s the opportunity to glean insight into where companies are headed in the months and the years ahead. To that end, Amazon’s annual filing reveals the ways...

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Amazon Charging New Fees on Some Returns
April 10, 2023

Amazon customers will reportedly be charged a fee for some returns to UPS Stores. The tech giant is applying the new fee in cases in which the customer returns a product to a UPS Store when they could have returned it to a Whole Foods,...

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Amazon Closes the Book on Book Depository, Underscoring eCommerce’s Evolution 
April 07, 2023

Every so often, we get a reminder of how far we’ve come — and where we’ve come from. It’s hard to recall, at least for some of us, that eCommerce has its roots, in some respects, in the stacks, so to speak — where selling...