With worried consumers putting pressure on the eCommerce company’s abilities, Amazon experienced a technical problem impacting grocery orders via Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods offerings. The services have turned into a way for consumers aiming to steer clear of stores amid the COVID-19 outbreak to...
Amazon’s New York expansion plans will now include the former Lord & Taylor building in downtown Manhattan, as the eCommerce company announced that it will purchase the storied building from office sharing startup WeWork, according to the New York Post. The price tag on the...
Amazon has established smaller warehouses around Dallas, Phoenix, Philadelphia and Orlando to make its same-day deliveries faster. The eCommerce giant announced on Tuesday (March 3) that it is improving its delivery program with guaranteed arrival times throughout the day for up to 3 million items...
Amazon has announced it has a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that helps convert text to images to aid in searching for products, according to a blog post by the company. “Generative adversarial networks (GANs), which were first introduced in 2014, have proven remarkably successful...
A coalition of some of the largest labor unions — including the International Brotherhood of Teamsters — has officially petitioned the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate Amazon for anti-competitive practices, according to The New York Times. The 28-page petition, filed Thursday (Feb. 27), asks...
Five years in the making, Amazon is opening its first cashierless grocery store on Tuesday (Feb. 25) in Seattle, according to reports. Amazon Go Grocery is selling about 5,000 stocked items in its approximate 10,400 square foot store, including fresh produce, meats and alcohol. Located...
When the axe falls from Amazon, the ripple effects are significant, especially for smaller logistics firms. Several companies have enjoyed the fruits of partnering with the eCommerce giant, to be sure, but the partnerships — at least, some of them — are proving short-lived. That’s...
In the drive to bring voice commerce to the mainstream, to move toward “speaking” the daily activities of buying what we need, as we need it, might there be room for a visual component, too? To that end, Amazon seems to be angling toward the...
Bear Down Logistics, a company that expanded quickly in the past few years delivering packages for Amazon, will no longer be working with the company and was forced to cut hundreds of jobs as a result, according to a report by Bloomberg. The company is...
