While startups have more power to change their industries today than ever before, it’s arguable that much of the innovation still comes from companies at the top of the retail pyramid, like Amazon. Massive revenue streams certainly make it less risky for a retailer of...
Amazon may not have planned the explosion of digital commerce and everything else that came with it, but that doesn’t mean that it didn’t see the writing on the wall when delivery companies started reaping millions in fees as consumers acquired an appetite for online...
Amazon has long been criticized for its labor policies, particularly in regards to worker conditions their distribution centers. And it seems this year for Christmas it will be collecting the gift of mass worker discontent via strike — actual and potential. The actual striking is...
Amazon’s immediate area of interest deals with, as it happens, immediacy. According to Re/code, the eCommerce giant is putting a significant amount of focus on its one- (or two-) hour delivery service, Prime Now, which launched in Manhattan last year and has been expanding ever...
The major of a New Jersey town that about two weeks ago was prepared to head into court with Amazon over his town’s ruined traffic patterns has decided to back off some. Robbinsville Mayor Dave Fried has sought regress from Amazon over what he calls...
The various problems with the state of New Jersey are blamed on many things. Bad taste, political corruption, the mafia, the Turnpike — we could go on, but the point is that of all the things enumerated in the list of things wrong with New...
