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Amazon Expands Morrisons Deal With Full-Range Offer
Amazon has stepped up its move into Britain’s grocery market, expanding its relationship with Morrisons so Prime members have access to the supermarket group’s full range on the internet giant’s...
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The German antitrust authority is investigating Amazon
Following a recent settlement, the German antitrust authority has launched another investigation in connection with Amazon – Világgazdaság Online wrote after Reuters and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “We are currently...
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Amazon distribution centers can be a number of commercial real estates
Yahoo Finance reported an interesting, though by no means surprising, decision in the US retail market – portfolio.hu wrote. One of the major plaza owners and operators in the US,...
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Amazon Starts Preparations To Launch In Sweden
Amazon.com Inc has started preparations to launch in Sweden, marking its first step to establish a local presence in a Nordic country. Swedish customers can already shop on Amazon through...
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Amazon internet company made an unprecedented profit in the second quarter of the year
Amazon internet trading company made an unprecedented profit in the second quarter of the year, during the coronavirus pandemic – Jeff Bezos, the company’s founder and CEO announced. Analysts say...
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Amazon Steps Up Challenge In UK Grocery Delivery
Amazon will begin fast and free deliveries of groceries in London on Tuesday, with the aim of rolling out the service across the United Kingdom by the year-end as the...
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Amazon is creating thousands of new jobs in Ireland
Amazon has announced that it will create thousands of new jobs in Ireland in two years. The number of Irish workers in the e-commerce giant will thus rise to five...
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Amazon launching robotic delivery to Tennessee
Amazon is deploying contactless delivery service to Atlanta and Franklin Tennessee via its Amazon Scout, an electric autonomous mobile robot. The news comes as the coronavirus continues to keep consumers...
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Amazon set to build first robotic fulfilment centre in Australia
Amazon plans to build its first robotic fulfilment centre, and the largest, in Australia, in a bid to speed up online orders processing time and increase its competitiveness. The new...
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Amazon launches $2 billion fund to promote sustainability
The e-tail giant is introducing the Climate Pledge Fund, a dedicated venture investment program designed to support the development of sustainable technologies and services. Amazon hopes the fund will enable...
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Amazon Signals Entry Into Alcohol Delivery In India With Nod In Key State
Amazon.com Inc has secured clearance to deliver alcohol in India’s eastern state of West Bengal, according to a document seen by Reuters, signalling the US e-commerce giant’s first foray into...
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Amazon is checking social distancing with the help of cameras
Many criticize Amazon for believing the company has minimal protection for its employees against the coronavirus. The company has now done something that might change the minds of critics. One...
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Amazon taps into food delivery services in India
Amazon.com Inc is rolling out services to deliver food in India, pitting it against established players Swiggy and Zomato in a market that has seen explosive growth in the last...
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Cautious expansion
Aldi Süd continues implementing its long-term expansion plans in China. More than 250 employees are working for Aldi China at the moment. The discounter currently operates 7 neighbourhood markets in...
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Amazon gets approval to buy stake in Deliveroo
Amazon’s purchase of a stake in Deliveroo has been provisionally cleared by Britain’s competition regulator. Amazon.com Inc provided a USD 575-million fundraising in Deliveroo last May, making an investment to...
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Amazon VP Resigns, Calls Company ‘Chickenshit’ for Firing Protesting Workers
Tim Bray, a well known senior engineer and Vice President at Amazon has “quit in dismay” because Amazon has been “firing whistleblowers who were making noise about warehouse employees frightened...
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Amazon to launch ultra-fast delivery service in UK
Amazon is reportedly retrofitting nine of its existing depots in order to handle fresh produce and fulfil grocery orders within hours. The service is said to be a merging of...
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Will Amazon contribute to Hungarian pandemiological spending?
With a government decree issued last week, special taxes will be introduced in Hungary again. The interesting thing about the special retail tax is that it also taxes – or...
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Amazon is fighting the epidemic with thermal cameras
Amazon already uses thermal cameras in at least six warehouses to screen out feverish workers – Reuters wrote. Cameras show how much heat a person emits relative to their surroundings....
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Amazon building COVID-19 test lab for workers
Company wants to regularly test Amazon workers who increasingly feel panicked Amazon is building a lab to test its workers for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. It’s...
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Amazon can’t keep up in coronavirus era
Jesse Rodriguez just wanted his weekly batch of groceries. And because his asthma makes the coronavirus pandemic especially dangerous for him, he didn’t want to mix with the crowds at...
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Amazon warehouse workers are walking out and Whole Food workers are striking
Amazon, the e-commerce giant that has fared well financially amid the COVID-19 pandemic, is facing a bevy of worker strikes. Today, warehouse workers on Staten Island in New York walked...
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In a storm of changes: Food trends in 2020
Grocery stores need to invest and develop faster than they would like to if they want to keep up with consumption changes and their competitors. However, this situation seems to...
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Amazon teams up with Bill Gates-backed group to deliver coronavirus test kits
Amazon.com Inc is teaming up with a research program funded by Bill Gates to pick up and deliver coronavirus test kits in Seattle, the e-commerce giant said on Monday. The...
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Amazon would hire 100,000 people
Amazon plans to hire 100,000 people and raise workers’ wages worldwide. The company plans to increase staff salaries by 2 USD in the US, by 2 pounds in the UK...
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Amazon has two-pronged response to Seattle coronavirus outbreak
Amazon is creating a $5 million Neighborhood Small Business Relief Fund to provide cash grants to small businesses in Seattle that need assistance dealing with the impact of COVID-19. The...
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Amazon Launches Business Selling Automated Checkout To Retailers
Amazon.com Inc on Monday is set to announce a new business line selling the technology behind its cashier-less convenience stores to other retailers, the company told Reuters. The world’s biggest web retailer...
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Amazon opens “mini-fulfillment centres” to speed up same-day deliveries
Amazon has opened “mini-fulfillment centres”, in four US cities, with the aim of speeding up same-day deliveries. The new “mini fulfillment centres”, which are about the tenth of the size...
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Amazon Expands Physical Footprint With Bigger Cashier-Less Grocery Shop
The world’s biggest online retailer is set to open ‘Amazon Go Grocery,’ a store in Seattle’s Capitol Hill with four times the shopping space as the first cashier-less location it...
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Amazon is taking action in case of overpriced medical masks
Amazon has announced that the site will look specifically at dealers who sell medical masks and take action against those who raise the price of medical masks – origo wrote....
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