It looks like Amazon‘s full court press into Indian eCommerce is paying off. According to reports by Livemint, Flipkart seems on the verge of being displaced as India’s top eCommerce firm. In an experience that has become a bit common the world over, Amazon has...
Amazon’s ambitions to sell groceries are not exactly a secret. The march of Prime Fresh and Prime Pantry across the nation are both clear indications that Amazon is interested in getting into one the biggest and most consistent areas of spend among American consumers. But until...
Sure, there are a variety of things Alexa can do — such as order groceries, make playlists and tell jokes — but the usefulness of those things is rather subjective. Lost phone on the other hand? That’s something that affects approximately 99 percent of humans...
Chinese tourists shopping in Japan is not an unusual site – for many years consumers from mainland China have been a mainstay of Japan’s various shopping districts. Also well established is the Chinese consumer’s love of shopping online. Amazon is now moving to combine the...
Ever wonder why Amazon Fashion’s prices are sometimes so low on such high-end designer labels? Well, most of the time, Amazon Fashion — the apparel retail arm that the massive eCommerce giant launched a few years ago as a way to segue into the fashion...
Amazon.com may have started out as a purveyor of books but its massive expansion into everything retail is leaving some U.S.-based fund managers scrambling to find retail companies to invest in that won’t eventually be upended by the eCommerce giant. “Retail is a landmine and you...
Most retailers have good cause to worry about the long-term implications of the Brexit vote. Labor costs, shipping and everything in between could get more expensive with a less porous border between the U.K. and the rest of Europe. Like many times before, though, Amazon...
An entire compendium of literature has been written on the ways Amazon tinkers with its online pricing engines, and still few have figured out the relationship between the sale price and the often ridiculous amounts listed under the manufacturer’s suggested retail price. No matter, though,...
The butcher’s bill has been rolling in all weekend when it comes to the Brexit and, of course, the early numbers are ugly. Ugly on the stock market, ugly for banks and truly ugly for tech innovators in the U.K. And, as it turns out, the...
