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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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Jeff Bezos commits $10 billion to fight climate change
Jeff Bezos is throwing his weight — and wealth — behind the fight against climate change months after Amazon employees publicly pressured him and the company to do more to...
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Amazon wants to create 15,000 new jobs
The company is dramatically expanding its presence in its hometown, Seattle. in Bellevue the company increases its workforce by 15,000, while the district currently employs 2,000 people – origo wrote...
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Lifeblood of Amazon merchants threatened as coronavirus infects Chinese workers
Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) sellers are bracing for product shortages as Chinese workers – worried about the fast-spreading coronavirus – may be unable or unwilling to return to idled factories. The...
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Amazon’s rate is rising sharply thanks to the better-than-expected flash report
Amazon’s stock price has risen sharply after the fourth-quarter report of the company that has outperformed its rivals and became better than analysts’ expectations and forecasts. The stock price of...
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Trade marketing in 10 years from now
Once again it was in the building of the Budapest Chamber of Commerce and Industry where the year’s last Trade Marketing Club meeting took place in November. One of the...
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Amazon is the most valuable brand according to Brand Finance
Amazon is the most valuable brand in the world according to the 2020 Global 500 Ranking of the UK’s Brand Finance market research and business consulting firm. According to the...
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At Amazon, we will soon be able to use our palm as a credit card
Amazon’s technology division is currently working to allow customers to connect their bank card details to their palms to pay for in-store purchases – origo wrote after CNBC. While Amazon’s...
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Alibaba’s executives are patient
Despite the long preparation and the favorable offers Alibaba has not been successful in the old continent, but its executives are patient – Világgazdaság wrote. Despite its extremely favorable offer...
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Amazon considers opening stores in Germany
Amazon.com is considering opening stores in Germany, its second biggest market after the United States. Amazon already operates stores in the United States and Britain, including the Whole Foods grocery...
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Amazon on-time delivery slip reported after Cyber Monday sales surge
On-time delivery rates fell for Amazon.com Inc van drivers in the latest week, consulting firm ShipMatrix said on Wednesday, but the online retailer said its performance was “far better than...
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