The tech giant may be heading into the brick-and-mortar grocery business. According to internal documents viewed by Business Insider, the company is outlining plans for 20 pilot locations of an AmazonFresh-branded grocery store. The initial sites include Seattle, Las Vegas, New York, Miami and the...
Amazon will be employing 120,000 workers to staff its fulfillment centers come the holiday season. This comes as sales are growing briskly, and Amazon is anticipating a larger pick-up in demand this holiday season. The 120,0000 new workers are a 20 percent increase on the...
Wi-Fi connected appliances able to connect with Amazon Dash when supplies start to run out are currently being manufactured by Samsung, Whirlpool and Oster — but GE is introducing the world to the first Dash-ready dishwasher. A smart dishwasher that orders for itself is an expensive...
Showrooming is about to go to a whole new level — thanks to the latest iteration of the Amazon Dash. Branching out past grocery, which had been the purview of the Dash wand before, Amazon-enthused customers can use their Dash wands to scan the barcode of...
Amazon is dedicated to making it much, much harder to just buy a product because of a good review (or few thousand good reviews). New updates to the Community Guidelines announced yesterday will ban reviews that came for an incentive — unless, of course, those incentives come...
About a year ago, the number of consumers searching Amazon for products was pushing 50 percent but not quite there yet — the numbers clocked in at 44 percent. But, it seems, Amazon has managed to turn that corner, and now, more than half of...
When Lands’ End announced Circle Membership last spring, it was clearly with high hopes. The launch came as part of the fanfare for Canvas by Lands’ End — a relaunch of its cooler, hipper, more millennial-focused brand. Circle offers customers a chance to pay $50 in...
Amazon is being accused of favoring big spenders and its Prime members. A report from nonprofit investigative news organization ProPublica revealed that the online retailer’s price-comparison pages actually rank products in favor of items either sold by Amazon or merchants who pay the company to...
When the going gets tough, the tough get going — to Amazon. At least, that seems to be the strategy that Lands’ End is looking to employ as it moves a select collection of items over for sale on Amazon later this month. Known for...
