For the second consecutive year, Amazon.com Inc.’s annual Prime Day shopping event will be a two-day spectacle. Analysts estimated the initiative, scheduled for Oct. 13 and 14 has the potential to break its fourth-quarter earnings record. It offers savings on products from small businesses and top...
Ready to do battle with supermarket giants Kroger Co. and Albertsons Cos. Inc. in the $900 billion U.S. grocery industry, Amazon will open a Los Angeles supermarket this week that will feature the next generation shopping cart, Reuters reported. Amazon Fresh, coming to the Woodland Hills neighborhood bordering the...
In what could be its newest venture in the retail fashion sector, Amazon is reportedly progressing with intentions to roll out a luxury brand platform in September at the soonest, Fox Business reported. The platform is said to showcase 12 domestic brands and European labels,...
Amazon India has added an online pharmacy to its offerings in Bengaluru, one of the nation’s largest cities with a population of nearly 12 million. Reuters reported Amazon Pharmacy will offer prescription, over-the-counter (OTC) drugs and Ayurveda medications, a holistic approach to healthcare considered one...
Amazon must like the supermarket business. Three years after it paid $13.4 billion for Whole Foods, the online retail giant is planning to open its second automated-checkout grocery store in Seattle’s Eastside neighborhood and is hiring managers for a third store in the city’s Capitol...
Amazon is moving its annual mid-summer Prime Day shopping bonanza until at least October, according to numerous published reports. No exact date has been given, but Business Insider reported that Amazon told one retailer to expect the event to be held around Oct. 5. The...
Amazon has launched a new Counterfeit Crimes Unit, which it wants to use to combat fake listings on its eCommerce site. The press release from the company says it will utilize a “global team, made up of former federal prosecutors, experienced investigators, and data analysts”...
With the 618 shopping festival wrapped and successful in China, attention now turns to Amazon and its series of shopping events, including this week’s The Big Style Sale. But in addition to great deals on apparel and handbags, what you will find online is a...
Amazon will hold a “summer sale” on June 22 in order to hopefully help the economy get moving, CNBC reports. In a notice sent to sellers on Tuesday (June 2), Amazon called the sale a ‘Fashion Summer Sales Event’ and said it would be invitation-only,...
