Kraft Heinz CEO Steve Cahillane said his company is focused on lowering prices because consumers are having trouble paying their bills. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Cahillane said the packaged food company’s strategy includes price cuts on items that had become expensive,...
Amazon has kept its Rufus AI shopping assistant largely separate from its main search bar since the tool’s 2024 launch. The company is now leaving the door open to changing that. Amazon is exploring a hybrid mode that would add AI-generated commentary directly above traditional...
Amazon has begun offering same-day delivery of perishable groceries to its business customers. The new service, long available for consumer customers, is being rolled out in 2,300 communities around the U.S. in response to what the company says was a top customer request, Amazon said in...
DoorDash has introduced several new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tools for merchants. The tools help merchants onboard faster, manage their video content, enhance their photos, launch branded websites and automate marketing campaigns, the company said in a Monday (May 4) press release. DoorDash’s new self-serve onboarding experience automatically surfaces details such...
Amazon is expanding its supply chain offering beyond its own retail/merchant operations. Amazon Supply Chain Services (ASCS) opens the company’s freight, distribution, fulfillment and parcel shipping tools to businesses of all types and sizes, according to a Monday (May 4) press release. Peter Larsen, vice president...
Marketplace owners write the rules. Amazon’s sellers are finding that out firsthand, as new policies ban advertisers from charging ad costs to credit cards as a primary payment mechanism. Instead, Amazon will automatically pull those costs from sellers’ sales proceeds. Credit or debit cards will...
Walmart is reportedly expanding its local product lineup to attract an extremely pinched American consumer. According to a report Thursday (April 30) from Bloomberg News, this effort is happening in markets such as Florida, where Walmart stores have begun stocking more Cuban-inspired coffee and beans from a local...
Independent sellers in Amazon’s store saved time and money by adopting artificial intelligence (AI) tools in 2025, the company said in a report released Thursday (April 30). Amazon outlined this and other trends among sellers in a press release outlining findings from its latest annual...
Amazon’s first-quarter earnings call sounded less like a retail update than a briefing on the next phase of cloud computing. The overwhelming majority of the discussion centered on AWS, artificial intelligence infrastructure and the chips Amazon says are now becoming a major business of their...