Amazon News & Media
Amazon unique visitor level tips 4 billion mark
May 1, 2020
Amazon saw 4.06 billion unique visitors in March — more than eBay, Apple, Walmart, Samsung.com, Apple.com and Rakuten sites combined.
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Top emerging technologies transforming the retail experience
by Ed Durbin — Global Director of Retail Solutions, End-User Computing, VMware
Ed Durbin, global director of retail solutions, end-user computing, VMware, shares insight on how retailers that leverage emerging technologies like AR/VR, IoT…
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Amazon hiring on once again to handle pandemic's online shopping surge
April 14, 2020
The online shopping surge due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is driving Amazon to hire on another 75,000 employees less than a month after it announced it…
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Amazon sellers get green light to send any kind of item to Amazon warehouses
April 14, 2020
One month after banning what its sellers could send to its warehouses Amazon has reversed course.
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Amazon suspends shipping non-Amazon goods
April 10, 2020
The continuing coronavirus pandemic, which has disrupted supply chains around the world, is prompting Amazon to temporarily suspend shipping of non-Amazon…
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Amazon deploying masks, taking workers temperature
April 6, 2020
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues across the U.S. and abroad Amazon is beefing up protection for its workers.
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Amazon CEO: Things going to get worse before they get better
March 24, 2020
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos cut right to the chase in a letter to employees this past weekend after first thanking them for their hard work and effort.
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Amazon hiring 100K workers to meet online sales crush in wake of COVID-19
March 17, 2020
Amazon is hiring on 100,000 workers in a quest to meet the "surge in demand" from online sales as people worldwide are sequestered home in light of the…
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COVID-19: Retailers closing stores for worker, customer safety
by Judy Mottl — Editor, RetailCustomerExperience.com & DigitalSignageToday.com
A growing number of retailers and brands are temporarily closing locations but will continue to pay workers through the closure period.
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CIBO Express Gourmet Markets to deploy Amazon's Just Walk Out tech
March 11, 2020
Hospitality group OTG will begin deploying Amazon's Just Walk Out cashierless technology in select CIBO Express Gourmet Markets in airport locations next week.
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Retail union group calls Amazon tech a Trojan horse aimed at grabbing customer data
March 9, 2020
(Updates with response from Amazon)
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Amazon to sell cashierless tech to retailers
March 9, 2020
Amazon plans to start selling its cashierless technology, called Just Walk Out, to other retailers and already has signed deals in place.
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Walmart launching an Amazon-like membership program
March 4, 2020
Taking a page from Amazon's playbook, Walmart is readying a membership program called Walmart+ which reportedly is very similar to Amazon's Prime strategy.
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Former Amazon exec on the state of retail e-commerce
by Judy Mottl — Editor, RetailCustomerExperience.com & DigitalSignageToday.com
James Thomson knows Amazon, having spent years heading up Amazon Services, and understands the challenges smaller retailers are facing in the e-commerce…
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Amazon debuts first Go Grocery store
February 25, 2020
Omnichannel giant Amazon is opening the doors today to its first cashierless grocery store, called Amazon Go Grocery, in Seattle.
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Amazon culls third-party delivery partners
February 21, 2020
Amazon is cancelling a slew of third-party delivery contracts due to issues with safety, performance and working conditions.
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Cardtronics enables cash balance reloads for Amazon customers
February 20, 2020
Cardtronics, the largest ATM operator in the world, announced that Amazon customers can load cash onto their Amazon cash balances at up to 400 of its ATM sites…
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We love Amazon, but we hate Amazon
February 7, 2020
It seems U.S. consumers have very mixed feelings about Amazon, with one in four having negative feelings when it comes to Amazon's impact on retail and the…
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7-Eleven debuts cashierless store at headquarters
February 5, 2020
7-Eleven has opened the doors to its first cashierless store, located at its Irving, Texas headquarters.
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Amazon Go store to offer fountain soda, espresso, hot foods
February 4, 2020
The Amazon Go store in San Francisco's financial district at 300 California St. will be selling hot food, espresso and fountain soda when it reopens in the…
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