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. Get the...
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...
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 world’s attention. The main and most alluring perk of Amazon Prime was free, two-day shipping on just about anything — and much of...
While both Amazon and Walmart tout an obsession with consumer experiences, this week the race for the customer’s whole paycheck saw the light shining on managers at Walmart and sellers on Amazon – and the six-figure opportunities available to both. Get the Full Story Complete...
This week both Amazon and Walmart were offering up pictures — albeit with very different levels of detail built in — of how the immediate retail future will take shape. Amazon laid out what its decade-long march to fully-automated warehouses will likely look like, while Walmart didn’t...
In the race for the consumer’s whole paycheck, Amazon was the busier runner this week with a host of announcements on quarterly earnings, upgraded shipping options and its ongoing push into the healthcare industry. Less out of Walmart this week, by comparison, though the in-store...
