Amazon announced Wednesday (November 7) that it is expanding grocery pickup from Whole Foods Market through Prime Now to eight more cities. In a press release, Amazon said the cities it expanded to include Birmingham, Colorado Springs, Long Island, Milwaukee, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, Tacoma...
Amazon is launching its first-ever printed holiday toy catalog, shipping “A Holiday of Play” to millions of its customers starting this month. “Amazon is excited to offer a new way for customers to shop for toys this holiday season,” Amazon said in a statement, according...
Amazon might be choosing two locations for its second headquarters rather than picking just one city. The Wall Street Journal cited a source who said the reason for the company’s decision to build two equal offices for HQ2 is to enable the recruitment of more top...
Amazon is facing backlash from hundreds of antiquarian book dealers across 24 countries who are vowing to pull books off a website owned by Amazon for a week in protest of a move by the website to ban sellers from specific countries around the globe....
Amazon is testing a new service dubbed Amazon Day that lets Prime customers choose the day the package is delivered during the checkout process. According to reports, in addition to standard one and two-day shipping options, many of the two-day delivery items will come with the...
Amazon has reportedly held advanced discussions about opening its second headquarters in Crystal City, Virginia — and the eCommerce giant isn’t happy about that news leaking to the press. According to The Washington Post, sources have revealed that Crystal City is so confident that the city’s top...
Amazon.com’s chief executive Jeff Bezos said he will pore over all the data when choosing Amazon’s second headquarter, but then it comes down to “going with your heart.” CNN — citing comments Bezos made during an interview by Walter Isaacson, the journalist and historian, at an...
Western Union and Amazon announced a partnership Wednesday (Oct. 31) that will offer a new payment option for international customers of the eCommerce giant. Western Union said in a release that Amazon customers will be able to pay in local currency for the items they...
It was only about two months ago — August, in fact — when the prediction came out: Amazon, the eCommerce operator that had recently made moves into healthcare, deepened its power in grocery and continued to grow in other parts of retail (and cloud computing), would hit...
