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Amazon Opens Grocery Delivery Program to Non-Prime Customers
Amazon Delivery // November 09, 2023

Amazon is expanding its grocery delivery/pickup program to include shoppers who aren’t Prime subscribers. The retail giant is making grocery delivery and free pickup available to all customers in any U.S. city or town where its Amazon Fresh grocery stores are available for Prime members,...

Amazon to Close Its 2 Physical Clothing Stores
Amazon // November 02, 2023

Amazon is closing its physical clothing stores as it shifts its focus to its online fashion shopping experience and expanding its grocery stores business. The two Amazon Style stores, located in Glendale, California, and Columbus, Ohio, will be closed by Nov. 9, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Nov. 2). Amazon spokesperson Kristen Kish...

Carrefour Calls Out Brands for Shrinkflation as Grocers Resist Price Hikes
Retail // September 14, 2023

Around the world, brands have been addressing cost challenges by quietly reducing the amount of product per purchase — a move that can lose shoppers’ trust — and now Carrefour is firing back. The French grocer has been adding signs informing shoppers about which brands...

Amazon Adds Whole Foods Private Label to Marketplace Despite Overall Cutbacks
Retail // August 14, 2023

Amazon may be cutting back on its private-label offerings overall, but it seems that, when it comes to grocery brands, the eCommerce giant may just be getting started. The company will be adding brick-and-mortar grocery subsidiary Whole Foods Market’s private-label brand, 365 by Whole Foods...

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Amazon Chips Away at Walmart Grocery Lead With Unified Pickup Options

February 09, 2024
As Amazon continues to try to shrink the gap between its own share of consumers’ grocery spending and Walmart’s, the eCommerce giant is retooling its mass-market brick-and-mortar offerings and looking to provide one-stop pickup options. On Amazon’s latest earnings call, CEO Andy Jassy noted that the company has already captures a significant share of consumers’ nonperishable […]

Whole Foods Rolls Out Amazon One as Grocers Tap Account-Linked Payments

July 20, 2023
As grocers look to boost their data-collecting capabilities in stores, Whole Foods Market is rolling out parent company Amazon’s palm payment capabilities across all locations. On Thursday (July 20), Amazon...

The Evolution Of The Amazon Prime Ecosystem

August 09, 2018
The world was a very different place in February 2005 when Amazon first introduced its loyalty program: Prime. There was no such thing as an iPhone; that was two years...

Marketplace Sellers Drive Amazon’s Q2 Profit Train

July 27, 2018
Another quarterly earnings reports, another rush of pleased Amazon investors hurrying to boost the stock in after-hours trading — Amazon stock jumped 4.1 percent in after-hours trading, despite notching the rare miss...

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Amazon Opens Grocery Delivery Program to Non-Prime Customers

November 09, 2023
Amazon is expanding its grocery delivery/pickup program to include shoppers who aren’t Prime subscribers. The retail giant is making grocery delivery and free pickup available to all customers in any U.S. city or town where its Amazon Fresh grocery stores are available for Prime members, according to a Thursday (Nov. 9) press release. The service […]

Amazon to Close Its 2 Physical Clothing Stores

November 02, 2023
Amazon is closing its physical clothing stores as it shifts its focus to its online fashion shopping experience and expanding its grocery stores business. The two Amazon Style stores, located in Glendale, California,...

Amazon Revamps Grocery Business to Compete With Walmart and Kroger

August 02, 2023
Amazon is reportedly overhauling its grocery operations to compete on that front with rival Walmart. Changes on tap include updated stores, a warehouse automation pilot and offering fresh food delivery to non-Prime...

Whole Foods Co-founder Debuts Love.Life to ‘Transform Healthcare’

July 26, 2023
Health and wellness company Love.Life has announced its launch, saying it is devoted to making lasting health and vitality accessible to everyone. Led by CEO and Co-founder John Mackey, a co-founder and former...