Amazon’s van-buying spree is bringing in holiday joy to the automotive industry. A boon to automakers, the e-commerce leader’s push for home-delivery has boosted van sales. Car manufacturer’s sales to fleets, are on pace for a record year, having already exceeded 2.6 million units through...
Amazon announced on Thursday (Dec. 19) it expects to deliver 3.5 billion customer packages worldwide this year through its delivery network and expects to deliver an additional 200 million parcels before the end of the year. Amazon also said it employs 800 third-party courier companies,...
Amid the Christmas shipping frenzy, Amazon told sellers that they can no longer use FedEx Ground for Prime shipments due to unpredictable service, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday (Dec. 16). Although Amazon itself stopped using FedEx Ground, third-party sellers were allowed to keep using...
Consulting firm ShipMatrix has said Amazon’s on-time delivery rates have been untimely, but the eCommerce giant disagrees, stating that its record is more timely than reported, Reuters said on Wednesday (Dec. 11). Amazon had record sales on Cyber Monday orders, but had to contend with...
eCommerce giant Amazon is gearing to close its Amazon Restaurants food delivery service. GeekWire, citing Amazon, reported the service will be shut down in the U.S. as of June 24. The service was launched in 2015 and is available in more than twenty cities across...
Amazon announced Tuesday (June 4) that it is expanding its one-day delivery with Amazon Prime, opening it up to members with no minimum purchase amount and adding more than ten million products. In a press release, Amazon said millions of Prime Members are already using...
The race to see which retail giant can get more to the consumer’s door faster is officially heating up just in time for summer vacation. Amazon announced today (June 3) that over 10 million products are now eligible for free one-day Prime delivery. The announcement...
Amazon, which has been adding automation to its shipping and delivery services, is mulling deploying packaging machines at warehouses, which would scan packages as they come off the conveyor belt and place them in custom boxes. Citing two people who worked on the project, Reuters...
A new report has revealed that Amazon can offer same-day and next-day delivery to 72 percent of the U.S. population, including almost all of the households (95 percent or more) in 16 of the wealthiest and most populated states and Washington, D.C. Late last month Amazon...
