Consulting firm ShipMatrix has said Amazon’s on-time delivery rates have been untimely, but the eCommerce giant disagrees, stating that its record is more timely than reported, Reuters said on Wednesday (Dec. 11). Amazon had record sales on Cyber Monday orders, but had to contend with...
eCommerce giant Amazon is gearing to close its Amazon Restaurants food delivery service. GeekWire, citing Amazon, reported the service will be shut down in the U.S. as of June 24. The service was launched in 2015 and is available in more than twenty cities across...
Amazon announced Tuesday (June 4) that it is expanding its one-day delivery with Amazon Prime, opening it up to members with no minimum purchase amount and adding more than ten million products. In a press release, Amazon said millions of Prime Members are already using...
The race to see which retail giant can get more to the consumer’s door faster is officially heating up just in time for summer vacation. Amazon announced today (June 3) that over 10 million products are now eligible for free one-day Prime delivery. The announcement...
Amazon, which has been adding automation to its shipping and delivery services, is mulling deploying packaging machines at warehouses, which would scan packages as they come off the conveyor belt and place them in custom boxes. Citing two people who worked on the project, Reuters...
A new report has revealed that Amazon can offer same-day and next-day delivery to 72 percent of the U.S. population, including almost all of the households (95 percent or more) in 16 of the wealthiest and most populated states and Washington, D.C. Late last month Amazon...
XPO Logistics’ stock took a hit late last week after it revealed that its largest customer curbed its business with the last-mile delivery company. According to a report in Reuters citing current and former XPO employees, the customer is thought to be Amazon and that the sales...
Amazon has announced it is expanding its partnership with Air Transport Services Group (ATSG) and will lease an additional 10 aircraft from the company. Launched in 2016, Amazon Air initially leased 40 Boeing 767 freighter aircraft, with 20 from ATSG. The 10 additional cargo planes...
Instacart will have to conquer the grocery-delivery business without the help of Amazon. That’s one take on the news Thursday (Dec. 13) that Instacart has begun the process of winding down deliveries to customers of Amazon-owned Whole Foods. That wasn’t perhaps the most surprising news,...
