The earnings are out, the early moves are made and the race for the consumer’s whole paycheck in 2020 is officially underway and moving full speed ahead. Thus far the advantage seems to be tipping toward Amazon, which got out of the gate with a...
It was a fairly quiet week on the Walmart front in the race for the consumer’s whole paycheck, with only one big piece of news out of the Bentonville headquarters. That may end up being a trend through next week as the world, watches for...
The big winner in the headlines race this week was certainly Amazon, which dropped a stronger than expected Q4 earnings report capped off with the announcement that its Prime membership subscriptions had reached the 150 million user mark. Walmart had plenty of news, though nothing...
It was a good week for Amazon’s stock price, with a valuation that briefly exceeded $1 trillion before falling back into the far more conservative $927 billion range, reaffirming its membership in the trillion-dollar club along with Microsoft ($1.27 trillion market value), Apple ($1.38 trillion market value)...
There was a lot of movement this week in the race for the consumer’s whole paycheck – in all directions. Both racers saw big steps forward; in Amazon’s case, that came in the form of its ongoing fight against counterfeiters attempting to sneak onto the...
It was a big week for peeks at what’s to come in the race for the consumer’s whole paycheck as both Walmart and Amazon had big upgrades to announce. Amazon was particularly busy as it spent much of the week at CES in Las Vegas...
Sometimes even the fastest runners need to take a break, and after the 16-week continuous retail sprint that is the annual holiday shopping rush, it is no great surprise that both Amazon and Walmart were relatively quiet in the first week of the new decade....
The clock is ticking — holiday shipping deadlines are approaching and the last of the holiday shopping procrastinators are either rushing to order online or resigning themselves to a last-minute trip to a crowded mall or shopping center to tough it out in line with...
As the spending season gets into gear with Black Friday looming on the horizon, the action is getting more interesting in the Walmart-Amazon race for the consumer’s whole paycheck. The moves are getting broader (particularly on Amazon’s side) and deeper (particularly on Walmart’s side). The question,...
