The rumors are swirling that Amazon has found a location for its third brick-and-mortar bookstore, and that the next instantiation will be on the East Coast. Specifically, according to reports in the New York Post, Amazon will soon be trying to take Manhattan with a brick-and-mortar...
It’s been the oft-purported opinion of many an armchair retail analyst that despite everything Amazon has accomplished over the years, its real mission has been hiding in the weeds. All those products sold and shipped at a loss, all those Prime service expansions and private-label...
Amazon has already done its part to disrupt one aspect of the educational industry by opening up the previously narrow textbook resale market. However, Amazon’s education division has even bigger plans for the classroom itself. Amazon announced Monday (June 27) that it had officially launched...
Despite Amazon‘s highly visible presence online, its network of warehouse and fulfillment centers that dot the globe is all but invisible — unless you know where to look. One of those places is just outside of Atlanta, Georgia, though what’s stored inside won’t be hard...
Most retailers are comfortable enough with text-based searches to game the system in their favor when necessary. Featured or promoted results are just one way of leveraging the personalized data gained through monitored queries, and there’s no doubt that as more consumers turn to mobile...
Imitation might be the sincerest form of flattery, but in retail, sometimes, it’s the only way to survive. However, when a company like Amazon holds the reins on so many factors across the landscape, what it does, more often than not, becomes the modus operandi of...
Can’t make everybody happy, we guess. Postmates co-founder and CEO Bastian Lehmann has pretty much nothing nice to say about Amazon’s blasted push into private label products while taking part in a fireside chat at Shoptalk in Las Vegas earlier today. Specifically, in fact, Lehmann noted...
The Amazon Echo has proved a sleeper success, not only because it’s managed to sell consumers on the concept of voice-based commerce but because it has so many rich connections to third-party apps and services that consumers have come to rely on. Now, Amazon is strengthening the...
The Amazon Echo shows just how fast, new and innovative technologies can break through the derision of early detractors to become a near-focal point of in-home commerce. Third-party apps have been a big part of the Echo’s daily progression toward ubiquitous usefulness, but now, Amazon...
