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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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Amazon expands free 1-day delivery on items
Amazon Prime members will get free one-day delivery on more than 10 million items this holiday season. The news comes on the heels of Amazon eliminating delivery fees on its Amazon Fresh...
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Amazon scraps popular free sample scheme
Amazon is scrapping its experimental free sample campaign which saw it deliver free items to consumers it thinks they would like to buy. In January, Amazon announced a free sampling...
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Amazon Lauches Medication Management Features for Alexa
As Amazon moves further into the healthcare market, the company today is rolling out a medication management feature for Alexa owners. The feature will allow customers to set up their...
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Amazon launches a Dash Smart Shelf for businesses that automatically restocks supplies
Amazon is launching its new Amazon Dash Smart Shelf today. The Dash Smart Shelf is also even more automated than the Dash buttons, as it uses a built-in scale to...
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Amazon opens pop-up store on China’s Pinduoduo until year-end
Amazon.com Inc on Monday said it will open a pop-up store on Chinese e-commerce platform Pinduoduo Inc that will run until the end of December and carry a selection of...
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Amazon offers grocery delivery at lower prices in Germany
Amazon announced that it would reduce the monthly membership fee for Fresh in Germany to EUR 7.99 from EUR 9.99, and will also cut the additional delivery fee for orders...
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Amazon opens pop-up store on China’s latest e-commerce platform
In December Amazon opened a pop-up store on Pinduoduo, the latest Chinese e-commerce platform. Then pop-up store was open until the end of December and offered about 1,000 different products...
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Amazon 2019: Going strong in the USA
Those who visit the USA just occasionally might get the impression that Amazon has conquered the country, e.g. there are Whole Foods stores, Alexa-operated Echoes, PrimeVideo subscriptions, etc. AmazonGo is...
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Magazine: Anuga 2019: The place where worldwide supply and demand met
Early October 7,500 exhibitors (72 from Hungary) from 106 countries presented their products and services to more than 170,000 visitors for 5 days at Anuga, the world’s biggest food-themed trade...
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Amazon will launch new grocery store as alternative to Whole Foods
Amazon on Monday said it plans to open its first new brand of grocery store in California next year, as it amps up its ambitious push to become a bigger...
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Amazon also undertakes a two-hour delivery to Prime’s subscribers
The US e-commerce company has announced that Prime subscribers can receive their food orders in as little as two hours if they qualify for service in one of the two...
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Amazon Makes Grocery Delivery Service Free For US Prime Members
Amazon.com Inc said on Tuesday it would make its grocery delivery service free for Prime members in the United States and integrate all orders for groceries into one portal. The...
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Amazon’s exchange rate declined, due to disappointing flash report
Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, fell 8 percent in its post-close e-commerce trading following a third-quarter flash report released Thursday. While the technology giant’s revenue of 69.98 billion USD...
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Amazon Expands Pickup Network In US
Amazon has announced the expansion of Counter, a service that offers customers the option to pick up their Amazon packages at a partner location across the US. The online giant...
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Gousto to create 700 new jobs in the UK in 3 years
British online recipe box company Gousto will add more than 700 jobs over the next 3 years, as there is growing demand for food services that send precise ingredients for recipes directly...
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Amazon grocery store chain moves ahead with leases in Los Angeles, WSJ reports
Amazon has signed more than a dozen leases in the Los Angeles area as part of its plan to open a chain of grocery stores, the Wall Street Journal reported...
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Amazon focuses on smaller cities
Smaller cities will be the targets of the one-week campaign for Amazon online retail giant’s Indian subsidiary. The campaign to be launched on 29 September – origo wrote. The company...
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The Amazone site in Debrecen has been handed over
The new Amazone site in Debrecen was handed over on Tuesday at the local Határ Road industrial park, the investment cost 400 million forints – Kovács Tamás, managing director of...
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Brazil Agribusiness Joins With NGOs To Call For Action On Amazon
Brazil’s leading meat export industry group and other agribusiness associations on Friday joined with nongovernment organisations (NGOs) to call for an end to deforestation on public lands, demanding government action...
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Amazon launches a new program to donate unsold products from third-party sellers to charity
Amazon will make it easier and more affordable for its third-party sellers to donate their unwanted excess inventory and returns, rather than having the items sent back or destroyed. The...
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Market capitalization of the 100 largest companies in the world breaks record
PwC’s Global Top 100 Survey has risen to a record of 21,000 billion USD for the world’s top 100 listed companies. In the one-year period from April last year, the...
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Amazon to open first Scottish Clicks & Mortar store this weekend
Amazon has revealed it is close to opening the first ever Scottish Clicks and Mortar store in Waverley Mall, Edinburgh. This weekend will see the tech giant launch the pop-up...
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FedEx broke up with Amazon
FedEx has announced that it will not renew its contract with Amazon, so they will not ship Amazon-ordered products to customers in the future – portfolio.hu wrote after The Wall...
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Amazon’s Pegasus Drive robots to be used in new Spanish DC’s
Amazon plans to open three new distribution centres in Spain, which will host its Pegasus Drive robots. Amazon’s new DC in Barcelona will be the seventh in this city, will...
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Magazine: Schwarz Group Dominates European Retail
As in the previous year, German Schwarz Group leads the ranking. With a gross sales plus on company level of 6.3 percent it reached a 7 percent market share in...
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Boxing With Giants: Italy’s Packing Robots Are Not Just Cardboard Cutouts
Amazon’s new recruit comes from a medieval walled town in central Italy and can box and seal at least 600 items of different shapes and sizes every hour. Twenty-four hours...
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New Amazon Go store in New York
Amazon has expanded its checkout-free small store format in Manhattan. One month after Amazon Go’s debut in New York, the retailer has opened a store on Park Avenue. Next up...
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Drone war between Amazon and Walmart
The transformation of the retail sector shows well that the two giant companies, Walmart and Amazon are competing with each other for more drone patents – portfolio.hu wrote after Financial...
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Amazon stops delivering food
Amazon has shut down its food delivery service after four years that Prime customers could use – origo wrote after CNBC. A small part of Amazon’s employees are affected by...
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