In recent Amazon news, AmazonBasics — Amazon’s private label retail merchandise brand — made news as a “spearhead” of the company’s private brands, according to reports from retail news provider Chain Store Age. AmazonBasics — despite sharing the proprietary product category with the Amazon Echo, Dot, Wickedly Prime snacks,...
Amazon announced that small businesses (SMBs) and entrepreneurs sold more than two billion items to shoppers on the site — resulting in a record-breaking first half of 2017. According to a press release announcing the news, Amazon offers SMBs the opportunity to reach shoppers in more...
Talking about retail and not mention Amazon these days is a difficult thing to do. Amazon seems to pop up in almost any conversation touching the topic. As such, it should come as no surprise that there may not be a single day in the...
Amazon Prime has long been a coveted service by many consumers in the U.S. A new report out of Consumer Intelligence Research Partners shows just how huge the service has become. Late last week, the market research firm released news that Prime Membership in the U.S....
In case Amazon Prime Day 2017 savings weren’t enough, there’s even more good news: The eCommerce giant is now offering two-hour Prime Now delivery to qualifying purchases. The offer started Saturday, July 8 — two days before Prime Day’s launch — and will continue through July 11....
The march of Alexa-enabled devices out of Amazon carries on with the release of the Dash Wand, a new device that allows users to scan grocery barcodes, convert measurements and order household goods from Amazon via voice command. Wi-Fi enabled and magnetic, the Dash Wand...
Amazon’s Dash button that debuted on March 31, 2015, may have gotten off to a slow start, but two years later, Dash, which is a thumb-sized device that lets consumers reorder paper towels, laundry detergent and toilet paper by pressing a button, is one of...
After about a half a year of speculation on the subject, it looks like Amazon will be opening its long-anticipated bookstore in Manhattan. The first New York City location will be in the Time Warner Center. The 4,000 square foot store will be located in...
While purists may bemoan the fact that Thanksgiving can’t get a standalone season to call its own, retail fans have jumped two feet first into the holiday shopping season as the retail world has more or less decided that Black Friday is just too limiting....
