Amazon Connect Talent, an agentic artificial intelligence solution for hiring, is now generally available, Amazon Web Services (AWS) said in a Thursday (Sept. 17) update to an article originally published in April. Amazon Connect Talent is designed to help enterprises accelerate the entire process of...
Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Rick Scott (R-Fla.) are calling on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate how Amazon and Walmart handle “Made in America” goods and claims on their website and apps, Baldwin said in a Thursday (Sept. 17) press release. In a letter...
Amazon needs more than faster warehouses to close Walmart’s delivery advantage. It may need to build and manufacture its own version of a neighborhood store network. Amazon knows this, and the digital retail giant is already acting on it strategically. Project Mercury, Amazon’s plan, reported...
The upmarket push is showing up at department stores, where the objective is to get customers to spend more without making the jump into luxury. Macy’s CEO Tony Spring described that effort during the retailer’s second-quarter conference call last week after an analyst asked about...
Walmart Data Ventures is adding new artificial intelligence-powered features to its commerce intelligence platform, Scintilla, the company said in a Wednesday (Sept. 16) press release. “For years, the focus in retail has been on accessing more — and better — data,” Walmart Data Ventures said...
Nike’s upcoming removal from the S&P 100 is easy to read as a corporate fall-from-grace story. It may be more useful to read it as a retail one. After nearly 18 years in the index, Nike will be removed from the S&P 100 before trading...
Walmart+ is expanding its Gas Savings benefit with a new partnership with Citgo. The expansion of the company’s membership program adds more than 4,000 new gas stations where Walmart+ members can save 10 cents per gallon on gas, the retail colossus said in a Monday (Sept....
Rent the Runway appointed its chief commercial officer and Nordstrom veteran, Paige Thomas, as CEO, president and member of the board of directors, the company said in a Friday (Sept. 11) press release. Thomas joined the company as CCO in June. Before that, she served...
The AFL-CIO Tech Institute, a think tank established in 2021 by the AFL-CIO labor union, is calling on policymakers to ban the use of electronic shelf labels (ESLs) in grocery stores. The organization made this call in a policy brief in which it said widespread...