Amazon is rolling out the welcome mat to its competitors, hoping to become every company’s one-stop fulfilment center regardless of origin or destination, Financial Times reported on Tuesday (Aug. 3). The eCommerce giant said in a recent job posting that it worked hard to develop...
Amazon will be adding a delivery fee for customers on Prime shopping at Whole Foods, which shows the difficulty of the grocery market even for the world’s largest online retailer, according to Bloomberg. Shoppers were recently informed of a $9.95 service delivery fee for deliveries...
Amazon’s Key In-Garage Grocery Delivery is expanding across the country to more than 5,000 municipalities after a successful November 2020 pilot program in five cities. “Customers who tried Key In-Garage Grocery Delivery have loved the service, which is why we’re expanding it to everywhere Amazon...
Amazon is taking steps to make life a little easier for the many drivers who comprise the Flex force that use their own vehicles to deliver packages. CNBC reported that Amazon quietly launched a program called Flex Rewards last week. “Delivering with Flex just got...
Amazon wants third-party sellers to step up their game and deliver at the same speed as the company’s own Prime program, CNBC reported. The company said it would be requiring members of its Seller Fulfilled Prime (SFP) program, which allows third-party merchants to make two-day...
President Donald Trump said Tuesday (Aug. 18) that Amazon should pay more in shipping to cover the lagging finances of the U.S. Postal Service, Bloomberg reported. Trump repeated a false claim that the Postal Service loses money on delivering Amazon packages because of the way...
Amazon Inc. is planning to expand Amazon Fresh, its grocery delivery service, to millions of members in the United Kingdom (U.K.) by year’s end, the company announced. Starting Tuesday (July 28) in more than 40 communities including Bracknell, Guildford, Maidenhead, Runnymede, Surrey Heath, Windsor, Woking,...
Amazon has launched a new style of truck that is bigger and boxier, similar to those used by competitors at the United Parcel Service (UPS), Reuters reported. The company is working on fixing the delays in deliveries spurred by the pandemic. Because of those delays,...
Amazon India has expanded its Amazon Flex delivery network to 35 cities across the country, The Hindu reported. The delivery service was started last year in three cities. An Amazon website said its Flex delivery service would pay between 120 rupees ($1.57) and 140 rupees...
