In April 1956, a trucking executive named Malcom McLean loaded 58 metal boxes onto a converted tanker in Newark and sent it to Houston. Nobody threw confetti. The longshoremen hated it. But the math was hard to argue with. Loading a ship by hand cost...
Amazon spent decades building a machine designed to make consumers come back constantly. Walmart has had one all along. It’s called grocery. Food and beverages now account for roughly 60% of Walmart’s retail business. Findings in the September 2026 edition of the Share of Wallet:...
Amazon is making fast, free Prime delivery available beyond Amazon.com, giving merchants another way to use the company’s logistics network to compete for online shoppers, according to a Thursday (Sept. 24) press release. Amazon Supply Chain Services (ASCS) merchants using its Multichannel Fulfillment (MCF) service...
Amazon spent decades trying to make itself the place where merchants sell. Its next act may be considerably more ambitious: becoming the place where merchants run their businesses, regardless of where the sale happens. Two exclusive announcements from Amazon shared with PYMNTS this week point...
October 01, 2026
The retail landscape used to have four primary levers: share of shoppers, share of sellers, share of advertising dollars and share of wallet. However, artificial intelligence (AI) is creating the fifth and sixth levers: share of decision-making and share of intent infrastructure. Headlines this week across the retail marketplace made that shift visible. Amazon’s upgraded […]
September 28, 2026
Amazon spent decades building a machine designed to make consumers come back constantly. Walmart has had one all along. It’s called grocery. Food and beverages now account for roughly 60%...
September 24, 2026
Amazon spent decades trying to make itself the place where merchants sell. Its next act may be considerably more ambitious: becoming the place where merchants run their businesses, regardless of...
September 23, 2026
Amazon’s next artificial intelligence push for merchants is less about giving sellers better answers than reducing how often they need to ask questions at all. Mary Beth Westmoreland, vice president,...
September 24, 2026
Amazon is making fast, free Prime delivery available beyond Amazon.com, giving merchants another way to use the company’s logistics network to compete for online shoppers, according to a Thursday (Sept. 24) press release. Amazon Supply Chain Services (ASCS) merchants using its Multichannel Fulfillment (MCF) service can now add a Prime delivery option to their own […]
September 23, 2026
Amazon is teaming with Affirm to offer installment payment options to its U.K. customers. The partnership, announced Wednesday (Sept. 23), lets customers choose Affirm as their payment method at checkout...
September 21, 2026
Amazon will invest another $1.9 billion in its delivery service partner (DSP) program in 2027. This will help DSP’s boost delivery associate (DA) pay to a national average of nearly...
September 21, 2026
Amazon blocked Meta’s new personal artificial intelligence agent, Muse, from its eCommerce site, GeekWire reported Sunday (Sept. 20). Meta never informed Amazon that its Muse agent would access the online...
