Amazon is setting its sights on India’s rural consumers, building from the ground up a logistics network so that it can serve the 800 million people, many of whom don’t have much in terms of access to retailers. According to a report in The Wall Street...
Judging by its holiday performance and PYMNTS research, Amazon is well on its way to commanding more of consumers’ paychecks in 2019. The 2018 holiday shopping season is also providing encouraging news for the ongoing development of the Internet of Things — and Amazon’s role...
Amazon has reportedly refused to disclose information about Prime memberships to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) after it was asked to do so. Earlier this year, the online giant said memberships in Prime, the company’s flagship subscription program, had reached more than 100...
Amazon announced on Thursday (Dec. 20) that it’s planning to lower some of the fees it charges to third-party sellers, according to a report from Reuters. The marketplace unit allows third-party sellers, which make up more than 50 percent of all the units Amazon sells,...
Williams-Sonoma, a retail outlet that sells kitchenware and furnishings, has sued Amazon over a chair that is “strikingly similar” to the company’s West Elm brand, according to a report by Bloomberg. Amazon’s version of the chair, which can no longer be found on the site,...
Amazon’s third annual Digital Day, which offers savings on digital content across the site, will be on Dec. 28, the company announced. Interested customers can access digital deals on movies, TV shows, eBooks, mobile games and apps on Amazon’s Digital Day website. “Amazon Digital Day...
Shoppers might have to wait until the New Year to get their hands on one of Amazon’s Echo smart speakers. Bloomberg reported that several of Amazon’s online stores in North America and Europe are sold out of various Echo models, with shipment delayed to January...
Amazon is making moves to get rid of items on its site known as CRaP, which is short for “Can’t Realize a Profit.” According to a report in The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), items such as bottled beverages or snack foods — which tend to be priced at...
Cliché — or, if you prefer, motto or metaphor — can drive so much of life, for good and bad. “Early bird gets the worm” sparks pre-dawn workouts and sunrise college-prep classes in high school (encouraging hard work even as evidence mounts that both practices...
