Operating over half a million robotic drive units and more than a dozen other robotic systems in its facilities around the world, Amazon’s eCommerce business is deeply invested in robotics technology. Related: Amazon Launches $1B Robotics, Logistics Fund But building out that robot empire has...
Amazon has announced two new value-added services to add benefits for delivery service partners (DSPs), a press release said. One of them is Next Mile, an academic program letting drivers access various schooling and study courses. And the other is a 401(k) program, allowing small...
Amazon’s proposal to halt some online sales and marketing practices to head off big antitrust fines from European Union regulators is inadequate and “full of loopholes,” a group of 11 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) argue in a filing to the European Commission. The organizations submitted the filing...
Amazon is considering entering the prescription drug sales market in Japan, according to a Reuters report Monday (Sept. 5). If it does so, it plans to team up with smaller pharmacies, starting next year when electronic prescriptions are finally allowed in the country. Prescription drug prices...
Amazon released a series of instruction manuals Wednesday (Aug. 31) designed to help users set up their Alexa Echo devices and turn their homes into smart homes. This comes at a time when 32% of consumers — or about 83 million people — used smart...
Amazon sunset its Amazon Care service, as the eCommerce giant begins to reevaluate its healthcare assets and offerings following its $3.9 billion acquisition of One Medical in July, The Wall Street Journal wrote. One Medical, a membership-based primary care practice, offers on-site offices in larger...
It’s hard to keep the world’s biggest eCommerce retailer down even in a troubled economy, and Prime Day tends to bear that out as it did in 2022, although inflation pressures were present. For the PYMNTS study “Prime Day 2022: Inflation Hits, But Amazon Still...
Lagging sales and economic troubles have caused Amazon to pause the rollout of more self-checkout stores. Sources said the eCommerce giant ended up walking away from talks to add dozens of new sites for the Amazon Fresh grocery stores. Many of the Fresh stores in...
When Amazon launched its Delivery Service Partner (DSP) program in 2018, it was presented as a way to help tiny companies go big and would-be entrepreneurs go into business. It was meant to be a win-win — people launch a business with as little as...
