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 the always frenetic back end of the year seemed to be on the agenda at both Amazon and Walmart this week, with steps...
With Prime Day officially in the history books, and 2019 officially in the back stretch (July 1 marks the start of the year’s second half), the race for the consumer’s whole paycheck is speeding up, as the field sets up for that ever-exciting final sprint down 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 evenly run race. Stumbles happen here and there, and pull-aheads are not unheard of – but mostly, the race is made up of moves...
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 argue with Amazon’s track record of success as it remains the company in history that grew a bookstore into a trillion (almost) dollar...
The Prime Day countdown clock is ticking down, and with all the media reports about what Amazon is doing to prepare (and what everyone else in retail is doing to prepare for those preparations), it might be hard to believe that there is news to...
While this tracker normally focuses entirely on the moves and counter-moves of Walmart and Amazon as they race for the greater share of the consumer’s whole paycheck, every once in a while another player manages to scoop them both in the headlines competition. This week...
There are full weeks in the race to control the consumer’s whole paycheck — and then there are very full weeks. This week was one of the latter, as Walmart hosted its investor meeting in Arkansas and Amazon decided this week’s menu of technological innovations...
Normally, when in a race for the consumer’s whole paycheck, winning the war for headline dominance in any given week is a good sign. Most attention is good attention. Most, but not all – and though Amazon managed to dominate the headlines in the early...
This week Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos got the tech sector’s attention with emerging reports of his “fascination” with the rapidly developing world of autonomous autos. “If you think about the auto industry right now, there’s so many things going on with Uber-ization, electrification, the connected...
