’Tis the season for shopping — and capturing the spend of consumers with a newfound enthusiasm for commerce of all kinds. The competition for the consumer’s whole paycheck is, of course, a year-round pursuit for both Amazon and Walmart, but for the next six or...
The pumpkins are gone, the Christmas lights are starting to appear and Black Friday sales have started despite the fact that according to the calendar Black Friday won’t be happening for another 28 days. But November has officially arrived and with it the unofficial start...
Most weeks the latest and greatest in the race for the consumer’s whole paycheck is the top-line news item for both Amazon and Walmart. What the big play of the week is can vary — as can what part of the consumer ecosystem it is...
Comparatively speaking, the volume of news out of both Walmart and Amazon was down a bit this week in terms of efforts to capture the consumer’s whole paycheck. The name of the game this week was breadth, it seemed, particularly for Amazon, which held its...
It was something of an uneven week in the race for the consumer’s whole paycheck. Amazon had a something of a forward-backward kind of week, as an argument emerged about whether its algorithm is rigged in such a way that it is getting an extra...
There wasn’t a lot of news out of Walmart and Amazon this week, but there was perhaps a slightly higher share of big news. The big news of the second week of September for both firms was rollouts — with new services, new offerings and...
Both Amazon and Walmart topped the headlines this week, albeit for very different reasons. Amazon captured the bulk of its interest by its attempt to capture more of the average’s consumers whole paycheck with something it is adding — namely a new payment method that...
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 were throwing a lot of ideas at a lot of verticals in an attempt to capture an ever-larger share of the customer’s total...
As of the first day of August 1994 more people had walked on the surface of the moon than had bought things online, because online shopping did not yet exist. That changed on the 11th day of the month that year, when the first internet...
