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...
Watch out, TikTok. Amazon is pushing into your territory. As reported by The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday (Aug. 17), the retail and tech giant is testing a feature in its mobile app that would show shoppers shareable, TikTok-style photos and video feeds of products....
Amazon has begun testing a new app feature that shows customers a video and photo feed of products, similar to the popular video social media platform TikTok. That’s according to a Wednesday (Aug. 17) report by The Wall Street Journal, which said — according to...
A Federal Trade Commission (FTC) probe into Amazon Prime and its other subscription services has become “unduly burdensome” to employees and executives after at least 19 were served individual subpoenas, according to an omnibus petition filed by Amazon. Amazon accuses the FTC of harassing founder...
Despite Amazon’s investment in its grocery offerings, and despite shoppers’ shift towards spending on just the essentials, the majority of the online marketplace’s shoppers still do not see it as a food and beverage destination. By the Numbers PYMNTS’ recent “Prime Day 2022: Inflation Hits...
