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Amazon Prime is a paid subscription service offered by Amazon that gives users access to services that would otherwise be unavailable, or cost extra, to the typical Amazon customer. This includes free two-day delivery, streaming music and video, and other benefits.
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3.8KAmazonHow Retailers Are Taking On Amazon’s Prime Day
Amazon is rolling out its annual Prime Day event, and other merchants are taking note: Retailers from eBay to Target are rolling...
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2.8KAmazonWhat To Expect From Prime Day 2018
After another year of waiting, Amazon‘s one-day (ish) annual celebration of all things eCommerce is set to commence this afternoon (July 16)...
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4.0KRetailGymboree Refreshes Brand On Amazon’s Prime Day
With Amazon rolling out Prime Day deals, Gymboree is revamping its digital presence along with a refreshed product and personality. The changes...
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1.1KAmazon CommercePrime Day To Cramp In Store Sales
Amazon’s Prime Day kicks off Monday (July 16) — and if history repeats itself, the 36-hour long shopping event should drive even...
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Amazon’s Prime Day Is A ‘Dress Rehearsal’ For The Holidays
With Amazon’s Prime Day on the horizon, the eCommerce retailer is gearing up for another sales event. But Amazon’s retail holiday also...
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4.2KNewsFive At Five: Amazon’s New Healthcare Project
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce news. Coverage includes the latest about Amazon’s healthcare...
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5.9KAmazonAmazon, Xealth, Two Hospitals To Test Medical Supply Project
Amazon is in talks with Xealth, and potentially two more hospital networks, to take part in a test project that would enable...
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5.1KLoyalty & RewardsRetailers Take Omnichannel Approach To Loyalty Programs
Loyalty programs aren’t just tied to eggs, milk or produce. With the rollout of savings tied to Amazon Prime in Whole Foods...
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7.7KDeliveryAmazon, Whole Foods Change Meal Kit Dynamics
One year after Amazon acquired Whole Foods Market, meal kit delivery companies are pulling out all the stops to hold onto customers....
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5.3KAmazonAnalyst: Amazon Prime Subscription Worth $180 Today
While Amazon’s Prime membership currently comes at a cost of $119 per year, one firm, Reason Investments, believes that the membership is worth...
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9.0KAmazonAmazon Cardholders Can Chase More Whole Foods Discounts
Amazon customers with the right credit card can keep chasing more grocery discounts at Whole Foods. The eCommerce operator said that between...
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6.8KRetailChanges At Whole Foods Post Amazon Buy Rankles Workers, Suppliers
One year in, the changes at Whole Foods Market, post the acquisition by Amazon, are rankling some of the grocery giant’s employees...
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5.8KSizzle/FizzleTwo-Sided Markets Sizzle, Swipe Fees Fizzle And Exactis Leaks A Lot Of Data
Fizzle of the Week: Exactis “Records are made to be broken.” That famous quote has been assigned, in some variation, to Richard...
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3.6KNewsFive At Five: Amazon Expands Food Deliveries
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce news. Today’s coverage includes a look at an...
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4.6KRetailAmazon Announces Next Whole Foods Delivery Expansion
Grocery delivery for Prime members is taking its next great leap forward as Amazon and Whole Foods have announced that Prime Now...
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4.2KRetailAmazon May Double Whole Foods’ Customer Base Through Prime
With new Prime incentives, one tech analyst believes that Amazon could double the customer base of Whole Foods. RBC Capital Markets’ Lead...
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4.5KToday In DataToday In Data: Priming The Digital Consumer
Starting this week, Whole Foods Market shoppers who are also Amazon Prime members will see their benefits rolling in no matter where...
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Amazon Expands Whole Foods Savings Perks For Prime Members
To provide Prime members with additional perks at Whole Foods, Amazon is rolling out an expanded discount program starting on Wednesday (June...
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12.7KPayments InnovationAre Retailers Ready For Amazon’s Prime Time?
My plan on Friday evening was to write a hard-hitting piece on a services segment with incredible marketplace friction. Then I went...
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3.0KNewsFive At Five: Amazon Goes Fashionable With Prime
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at today’s payments and commerce news. Coverage includes a look at the newest feature...
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4.5KAmazonAmazon Rolls Out Prime Wardrobe To US Prime Members
Following a beta accessible by invitation only, Amazon is rolling out Prime Wardrobe to all of its U.S. Prime customers. An executive...
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Amazon’s Prime Savings To Bow At Half Of Whole Foods Market Stores
The Prime will now include … prime steak. Amazon and its recently acquired Whole Foods grocery unit said on Monday (June 11)...
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4.3KSouth AsiaAre Private Labels The Key To Cracking The Profitability Of Indian eCommerce?
In 2016, 95 percent of transactions in India were done in cash and there were approximately 60 million online shoppers, representing about...
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Amazon’s Whole Food Discounts Are Rolling Out Across Dozens Of States
The Prime rewards are coming; the Prime rewards are coming. Such is the hue and cry set to go off in about...
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3.2KDeliveryAmid Trucker Shortage, High Prices Loom
Keep on truckin’ — if you can find the drivers. The Washington Post reported that the trucking industry, that linchpin of last-mile...
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8.2KAmazonYou Could Do Worse Than Quit A Warehouse Job At Amazon
Amazon puts significant effort toward loyalty, as shown recently by its push to extend Prime discounts to Whole Foods shoppers, a move...
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7.7KAmazon LoyaltyCan Amazon Drum Up More Prime Revenue Via Whole Foods?
The way to Prime members’ hearts — and wallets — is through their stomachs. That seems to be Amazon’s play as the...
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8.5KAmazonWhole Foods Prime Loyalty Program Launches In Florida
Amazon.com is stepping up its battle for grocery store dominance, launching a new loyalty program with Whole Foods for Prime customers on Wednesday...
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4.5KAmazonAmazon To Trump Walmart Sales Within Three Years
Amazon could match Walmart in terms of U.S. sales in two to three years time if JPMorgan’s prediction proves true. According to a...
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Sprouts No Longer Partnering With Amazon Prime
Sprouts Farmers Market announced that it has ended its Prime Now delivery partnership with Amazon. According to Reuters, the partnership ended on...
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6.9KAmazonPrime Members To Get New Perks For Shopping At Whole Foods
Amazon is gearing up to offer its Prime members new benefits centered around Whole Foods — including discounts on food items. CNBC,...
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3.6KAmazonAmazon Unveils Children’s Book Subscriptions
As a first for its Prime membership service, Amazon has unveiled a subscription service for children’s books. Through the program, customers will be...
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7.3KAmazonAmazon Raises Prime Membership Prices
Amazon announced it is raising the price of its Prime membership from $99 to $119 — its first price hike since March...
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4.3KAmazonAmazon Grocery Delivery Expands To 3 New Cities
When Amazon launched Prime Now delivery for groceries out of its Whole Foods Marketpalce subsidiary, the company turned some heads — and...
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5.2KRetailAmazon Rolls Out In-Car Delivery
Months after delivering packages inside customers’ homes, Amazon begins delivering purchases inside customers’ cars. The free service is only available to Prime members...
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3.2KToday In DataSecond Looks And New Ideas
Spring is the season for cleaning out the old and ushering in the new. And sometimes a new groove is just what...
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Weird Stuff People Buy On Amazon
In 2012, American internet entrepreneur, angel investor, author and blogger Jason Calacanis gave a pretty bold prediction about Amazon Prime — then in...
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5.8KSizzle/FizzleAmazon Sizzles, Plenti Fizzles And Goldman Gets Its Consumer Banking Groove
It used to be that when “Goldman Sachs” was mentioned, it was in the context of the storied Wall Street investment banking...
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Amazon Prime Users Top 100M
Amazon Prime has reached a milestone number of subscribers: CEO Jeff Bezos says the service now has more than 100 million members....
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3.4KAmazonAmazon Prime To Take Over Whole Foods Rewards Program
Whole Foods Market has informed customers that it is shutting down its rewards program, which will most likely be folded into the...
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3.5KeCommerceAmazon Expands Prime Wardrobe Roll Out
Amazon is apparently rolling out its Prime Wardrobe service to more customers. The eCommerce retailer confirmed the expansion after two tweets —...
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10.8KDeliveryHow Smaller Merchants Can Get Amazon-Style Logistics
Divey Gulati knows firsthand how challenging it can be for eCommerce merchants to fulfill and mail orders. After all, Gulati and a...
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6.8KAmazon InnovationsAmazon Unlocks New Features For Amazon Key
Expanding upon the in-home delivery feature of Amazon Key, Amazon has rolled out smart entry upgrades to all customers nationwide, such as...
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9.2KSubscription CommerceDeep Dive: The State Of The SVOD/OTT Subscription Market
The days of visiting a brick-and-mortar store to rent VHS tapes or DVDs have become a distant memory — one they have...
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Whole Foods May Test 10 Percent Prime Discount
It’s possible that Amazon Prime members may see more discounts at Whole Foods. The grocer reportedly displayed signs that advertised 10 percent...
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4.9KPartnerships / AcquisitionsFrench Grocer Monoprix To Deliver Groceries In Paris Through Amazon Now
Monoprix, a grocery store operator in France, has inked a deal with Amazon in which it will begin selling its products through the...
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12.3KRegulationThe Curious Case For Breaking Up Tech Giants
There’s no question that the world’s weather patterns are undergoing a massive change. In the last few months alone, we’ve seen snow...
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Amazon’s Shows Lure Millions To Prime, Internal Documents Show
Amazon’s bet on video content appears to be paying off, with its leading shows bringing in more than 5 million people to...
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5.0KAmazonAmazon Seeks New Avenues Of Growth For Amazon Prime
When Amazon launched its Prime service in 2005, its visionary chief executive had big plans to shake up eCommerce retail. “Amazon Prime...
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16.8KConsumer InsightsThe Amazon Effect On Consumers And Grocery Shopping
If you’re like most Americans, you or someone in your household made a run to the grocery store on Saturday to get...
