Amazon Effect

Why Toys R Us May Signal The Start Of An Insolvency Spike
Why Toys R Us May Signal The Start Of An Insolvency Spike
March 22, 2018  |  B2B Payments

It was a coincidental happening that the same month Atradius released its latest insolvency forecast – which found that insolvencies around the world are low,...

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How Grocers Are Taking On Amazon With Instacart
How Grocers Are Taking On Amazon With Instacart
March 15, 2018  |  Retail

BJ’s Wholesale Club has an ambitious goal: It plans to offer same-day delivery from all of its brick-and-mortar stores by the end of April. But...

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Fed’s Powell Credits Amazon For Low Inflation
Fed’s Powell Credits Amazon For Low Inflation
March 02, 2018  |  Amazon

When asked why inflation has been so low for the past decade, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell had an interesting answer: the Amazon effect. “It’s...

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Why The Amazon Effect Complicates The Fed’s Interest Rate Decisions
Why The Amazon Effect Complicates The Fed’s Interest Rate Decisions
December 12, 2017  |  Amazon

The ability and tendency of the average American consumer to hit the web to purchase goods or at least research them and their price has...

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Is The Amazon Effect Depressing Inflation?
Is The Amazon Effect Depressing Inflation?
October 02, 2017  |  Amazon

For the last several years, economists have been trying to crack the mystery of low U.S. inflation.  Despite being ten years out of the financial...

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Amazon’s Whole Foods Whole Pay Play
Amazon’s Whole Foods Whole Pay Play
August 28, 2017  |  Amazon

Fanny Fern was the highest paid journalist in the country in 1855 because of her “witty and irreverent” tell-it-like-it-is style. Fern — a native of Portland,...

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Wayfair Beats Earnings Expectations – Again
Wayfair Beats Earnings Expectations – Again
August 09, 2017  |  Earnings

In the eCommerce landscape, conventional wisdom tends to the idea that Amazon’s gravity in digital commerce is so overpowering that it is all but impossible...

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Amazon Grows Sales Of ‘eCommerce Immune’ Categories
Amazon Grows Sales Of ‘eCommerce Immune’ Categories
May 10, 2017  |  Retail

Watch out, brick-and-mortar retailers. Those items once considered ‘eCommerce immune’ are starting to see sales shift online (especially from Amazon). This according to recent insight...

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The Amazon Effect On … Payments
The Amazon Effect On … Payments
March 20, 2017  |  Amazon

We spend a lot of time talking about the impact of the “Amazon Effect” on traditional retail’s current misfortunes. But there’s another “Amazon Effect” which...

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