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Amazon Launches Grocery Subscriptions for Prime and EBT Customers
April 23, 2024

Amazon has introduced grocery delivery subscriptions for Prime members and EBT users. The new service, announced Tuesday (April 23), is launching in more than 3,500 locations around the U.S. It gives Prime members willing to spend $9.99 per month unlimited grocery deliveries on orders of $35 from Amazon Fresh, Whole...

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Amazon Licenses Just Walk Out Tech in Battle for Grocery Stores’ Loyalty
April 17, 2024

Amazon is pushing sales of its Just Walk Out technology even as it pulls back on the checkout system in its own grocery stores, a move that comes as tech giants compete to own the Click-and-Mortar™ grocery experience. The company recently shifted away from the...

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Amazon Live Launches Shoppable Channel Integrating TVs and Mobile Devices
April 16, 2024

Amazon Live has launched an interactive and shoppable channel called FAST Channel on Prime Video and Amazon Freevee. This channel will feature Amazon’s “shop the show” technology that allows customers to use their mobile device to browse, shop and engage with the content they’re watching on their TV, Amazon...

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Amazon CEO Shareholder Letter Goes Big on AI and AWS
April 11, 2024

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy published his 2023 Letter to Shareholders Thursday (April 11), outlining how the company is changing and its goals for the future. It’s a 28-minute read by Amazon’s own count. If you don’t have the half hour to spare, here are some key highlights (a three- to...

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Amazon to Change How Alexa Developers Are Paid
April 10, 2024

Amazon will stop paying developers to create applications — called Skills — for its voice assistant Alexa. This will end an offering that has been available to developers since 2017 and aimed to build an app store for Alexa, Bloomberg reported Wednesday (April 10). Amazon...

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Amazon’s ‘Just Walk Out’ Pivot: Reimagining Tech
April 08, 2024

Amazon is scaling back its artificial intelligence (AI) system that lets customers leave stores without having to provide payment, and experts say there are lessons to be drawn from this decision. The retail giant’s recent move to install Dash Carts in place of its Just Walk...

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Amazon Merchants Battle Wave of Bogus Returns
April 04, 2024

The battle against the $101 billion returns fraud problem has reportedly taken a new turn. It involves sellers on Amazon sending off their wares, only to get “returns” that are in some cases literally junk, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Thursday (April 4). For example, there’s Barbara Boschen,...

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Amazon Web Services Eliminates Hundreds of Roles to ‘Optimize Resources’
April 03, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is eliminating hundreds of roles in two of its organizations as it focuses on other areas. The job cuts will impact several hundred roles in the company’s Sales, Marketing and Global Services (SMGS) organization and a few hundred in its Physical...

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Amazon Fresh to Replace ‘Just Walk Out’ With Smart Carts
April 02, 2024

As it redesigns its Amazon Fresh stores, Amazon is removing its Just Walk Out technology. That technology will be replaced by the company’s smart shopping cart, the Amazon Dash Cart, Jessica Martin, Amazon spokesperson, said in a statement emailed to PYMNTS Tuesday (April 2). The...