The clock is ticking — holiday shipping deadlines are approaching and the last of the holiday shopping procrastinators are either rushing to...
As the spending season gets into gear with Black Friday looming on the horizon, the action is getting more interesting in the...
’Tis the season for shopping — and capturing the spend of consumers with a newfound enthusiasm for commerce of all kinds. The...
The pumpkins are gone, the Christmas lights are starting to appear and Black Friday sales have started despite the fact that according...
Most weeks the latest and greatest in the race for the consumer’s whole paycheck is the top-line news item for both Amazon...
Comparatively speaking, the volume of news out of both Walmart and Amazon was down a bit this week in terms of efforts...
It was something of an uneven week in the race for the consumer’s whole paycheck. Amazon had a something of a forward-backward...
There wasn’t a lot of news out of Walmart and Amazon this week, but there was perhaps a slightly higher share of...
Both Amazon and Walmart topped the headlines this week, albeit for very different reasons. Amazon captured the bulk of its interest by...
There was something of an “everything-but-the-kitchen-sink” feel to the race for the consumer’s whole paycheck this week, as both Amazon and Walmart...
As of the first day of August 1994 more people had walked on the surface of the moon than had bought things...
After a few rather action-packed weeks in the race to win the consumer’s whole paycheck, this week was notably slower-paced. Table-setting for...
With Prime Day officially in the history books, and 2019 officially in the back stretch (July 1 marks the start of the...
Most weeks, the tale of Amazon and Walmart’s ongoing battle for the larger share of the consumer’s whole paycheck is a fairly...
This week Amazon.com celebrated its 25th birthday. For the most part it’s been a good two-and-a-half decades, and it is hard to...
The Prime Day countdown clock is ticking down, and with all the media reports about what Amazon is doing to prepare (and...
While this tracker normally focuses entirely on the moves and counter-moves of Walmart and Amazon as they race for the greater share...
There are full weeks in the race to control the consumer’s whole paycheck — and then there are very full weeks. This...
Normally, when in a race for the consumer’s whole paycheck, winning the war for headline dominance in any given week is a...
This week Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos got the tech sector’s attention with emerging reports of his “fascination” with the rapidly developing world...
When Amazon announced about two weeks ago that Prime’s free two-day shipping was about to become Prime’s one-day shipping, it certainly got the...
While both Amazon and Walmart tout an obsession with consumer experiences, this week the race for the customer’s whole paycheck saw the...
This week both Amazon and Walmart were offering up pictures — albeit with very different levels of detail built in — of how the...
In the race for the consumer’s whole paycheck, Amazon was the busier runner this week with a host of announcements on quarterly...
While the race for the consumer’s whole paycheck between Walmart and Amazon was somewhat quieter this week than it has been in...
The race for the consumer’s whole paycheck sped up this week, and Amazon and Walmart were eagerly rolling out acquisitions, upgrades and the odd bits...
The world of retail was a simpler place in the year 1900. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) “100 Years of U.S....
As this goes to press (so to speak), the annual NCAA March Madness tournament is rounding off the Sweet-16 round. There’s been...
Shopping in the early 20th century was not a terribly efficient experience for the consumer. Buying meat was one market, seafood another,...
In 1995 a computer scientist working at Kaleida Labs named John Wainwright made history when he bought a book. The book was...
There is something to be said for being a happy warrior, and Walmart U.S. CEO Greg Foran was certainly one this week...
There is a possibly apocryphal story of Amazon’s early days (around 2001) where Founder Jeff Bezos was invited to Bentonville, Arkansas to...