Amazon took its free shipping to the next level on Thursday (Dec. 13), announcing it will offer Prime members free same-day delivery and Prime Now up until Christmas Eve. What’s more, the eCommerce giant said that customers in the U.S. will get free shipping on hundreds...
Police in Jersey City are partnering with Amazon on an operation aimed to catch thieves stealing holiday packages from residential homes. Law enforcement is installing doorbell cameras and planting dummy boxes with GPS tracking devices at homes around the city — and it has managed to catch...
Call it the Amazon Effect — of a different sort. News has come that the Trump administration wants to boost the United States Postal Service’s (USPS’) revenue, and has taken aim, in part, at a certain eCommerce giant. Might the economics of the last mile change,...
A group of workers at Amazon’s Staten Island warehouse want to unionize, according to a report by Bloomberg. The news is another complication for Amazon in a city where it plans to build a brand-new campus. Amazon plans to invest $2.5 billion and recruit 25,000...
Amazon is making a move into toy-making just in time for the holidays. TJI, a research site that tracks Amazon’s private-label brands, recently noticed four product pages on Amazon.com for children’s toys from AmazonBasics. The products listed were a Soft Play Single Tunnel; a Soft...
A new report shows that the arrival of Amazon brings major benefits to a location’s labor market. The new analysis from Morgan Stanley aimed to take a look at the eCommerce giant’s real impact on the job market “beyond the negative headlines around the hollowing out...
Amazon is cracking down on seller scams and has fired employees in the U.S. and India as a result. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, Amazon has been in the process of investigating data leaks and...
Amazon will start charging third-party sellers penalty fees for packages that don’t comply with its safety requirements. An email obtained by CNBC revealed that the eCommerce giant expects third-party sellers to meet the company’s package safety standards when sending inventory to be stored and shipped...
Amazon is exploring the idea of rolling out cashierless stores in airports as it continues to expand into a host of new markets. Reuters, citing public records and a person familiar with the strategy, reported that Amazon is looking at U.S. airports as new locations...
