The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has named three senior Amazon executives in an amended complaint, alleging their involvement in deceptive practices related to the company’s Prime program. The executives, Neil Lindsay, Russell Grandinetti and Jamil Ghani, have been accused of being aware of issues around enrolling consumers into Prime without their consent and making...
Amazon has gone from “Just Walk Out” to “Just Wear Out.” The retail giant on Tuesday (Sept. 19) announced an expansion of its Just Walk Out technology — its checkout-free shopping tool — upgrading an offering first designed for items like food and beverages and...
Amazon is reportedly considering introducing two new subscription programs: one in grocery and one in healthcare. These would be stand-alone memberships for these offerings, Seeking Alpha reported Monday (Sept. 18), citing a paywalled article by Insider. The company is also considering integrating One Medical’s primary care service with Amazon’s...
Amazon has unveiled a pair of tools to help merchants using its Buy with Prime program. Introduced in April 2022, the program lets merchants sell listed products directly from their websites, making Amazon’s payments and fulfillment services available at checkout and allowing shoppers to use...
Amazon is reportedly capitalizing on the void left by Shopify’s withdrawal from shipping services earlier this year. The Buy With Prime service that Amazon launched last year and highlighted Thursday (Sept. 14) at its Accelerate sellers conference allows online merchants to offer fast delivery of customer orders placed...
Amazon has launched generative AI capablities to help sellers create and manage their product listings. These capabilities simplify the process of creating compelling product descriptions and titles, making it easier for sellers to list products and for shoppers to get the information they need, the...
Amazon has launched a new pilot initiative in collaboration with the National Housing Trust (NHT), a nonprofit group, to increase homeownership opportunities for underserved communities. With an investment of $40 million, Amazon aims to assist moderate-income individuals and families in purchasing homes in Tennessee, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and...
Apollo Global Management is reportedly second-guessing its investment in Amazon brand aggregator Perch. The private equity firm in 2001 pledged up to half a billion dollars in debt to Victory Park Capital, which invests in multiple aggregators, Perch among them. Now, as Bloomberg News reported...
Stitch together eCommerce ecosystem by eCommerce ecosystem and you get a massive ecosystem, as measured by scale. Amazon is partnering with Shopify to allow merchants who pay for Shopify’s eCommerce tools to use Amazon’s logistics network. The tie-up underscores the ways in which logistics and fulfillment can be the needle...
