Amazon now captures more spending than Walmart in five of seven retail categories, extending its reach from electronics and apparel into health and personal care. That breadth gives Amazon several ways to grow as consumers shift more purchases toward goods they can research, order and...
Amazon is making fast, free Prime delivery available beyond Amazon.com, giving merchants another way to use the company’s logistics network to compete for online shoppers, according to a Thursday (Sept. 24) press release. Amazon Supply Chain Services (ASCS) merchants using its Multichannel Fulfillment (MCF) service...
Maybe that Amazon-Walmart rivalry isn’t so fierce after all. Amazon announced Thursday morning (Sept. 24) that it will let marketplace sellers manage orders and shipment tracking from eBay, Shopify, TikTok and Walmart inside Seller Central, extending its seller dashboard to the other places merchants do...
Amazon will invest another $1.9 billion in its delivery service partner (DSP) program in 2027. This will help DSP’s boost delivery associate (DA) pay to a national average of nearly $24 per hour, Amazon said in its announcement Monday (Sept. 21). “Amazon’s safety investments and...
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...
Amazon announced Wednesday (Sept. 2) that it is giving consumers a new way to fight back against one of scammers’ most effective weapons, impersonation. The company is adding a feature to Alexa for Shopping that can verify whether an email, text, phone call or other...
After 21 years, Amazon is shutting down its crowdsourced work platform Mechanical Turk. “We regularly evaluate our programs, tools and services and make adjustments based on those assessments,” the tech giant wrote Tuesday (Aug. 25) in a notice posted to the Mechanical Turk (MTurk) website. “Following an assessment, we’ve...
Amazon has denied details cited in a media report about its plans for an automated delivery-station concept, saying the concept is one of many being evaluated and the plans will likely change. Seeking Alpha reported Monday (Aug. 24), citing a paywalled article by Business Insider, that Amazon is developing an...
Amazon has launched an education program for college students centered around its cloud computing business. Student Rewards on AWS (Amazon Web Services) Builder Center, gives students access to earn AWS, 12 months of premium Skill Builder, and an AWS Certification Foundational exam voucher as they learn,...