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Prime Members To Get New Perks For Shopping At Whole Foods
May 02, 2018

Amazon is gearing up to offer its Prime members new benefits centered around Whole Foods — including discounts on food items. CNBC, citing sources, reported that the new benefits are aimed at bringing Prime more into the fold when it comes to groceries and giving...

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Amazon Expands Boston Tech Hub; Adds 2,000 New Tech Roles
May 01, 2018

Amazon, announced news on Tuesday (May 1) that it will expand its Boston Tech Hub, creating 2,000 new tech jobs in fields including machine learning, speech science, cloud computing and robotics engineering. In a press release, the eCommerce giant said that together with its customer...

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Amazon Unveils Children’s Book Subscriptions
May 01, 2018

As a first for its Prime membership service, Amazon has unveiled a subscription service for children’s books. Through the program, customers will be able to purchase age-appropriate boxes of books picked out by Amazon’s team of editors, TechCrunch reported. “These books include classics that have stood...

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Amazon Struggles With European Apparel, Footwear Sales
May 01, 2018

Amazon is having a tough go of it in Europe, even though it has been in the region for twenty years. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, Amazon is still struggling in Europe to gain traction hawking shoes and apparel. According to retail...

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Why Amazon Business Targets B2B eCommerce’s ‘Tail Spend’
May 01, 2018

In some sense, B2B eCommerce offerings have had a customer base for longer than they’ve actually had their own hub on Amazon, Martin Rohde, head of commercial customers for Amazon Business, told Karen Webster in a recent conversation. First founded about three years ago in 2015, Amazon...

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Amazon’s Marketplace Struggles With Mislabeled Goods
April 27, 2018

While Amazon has spent years looking into counterfeit and otherwise mislabeled goods, the company continues to face the challenge of overseeing its own eCommerce platform. Through Amazon’s Marketplace, The Guardian was able to obtain several goods that weren’t as described. For example, The Guardian received...

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Amazon Raises Prime Membership Prices
April 27, 2018

Amazon announced it is raising the price of its Prime membership from $99 to $119 — its first price hike since March 2014. According to CNBC, the company revealed the price increase during its first quarter earnings call. Amazon attributed the increase to the service’s...

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With Surging Profits (And Creeping Costs), Amazon Ups The Price Of Prime
April 27, 2018

There are good earnings days, there are great earnings days and there are astonishing earnings days. Amazon’s earnings day yesterday floated someplace between great and astonishing – and the market took note. As soon as the news broke, Amazon’s share price jumped 7 percent in afterhours trading and...

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Amazon Grocery Delivery Expands To 3 New Cities
April 25, 2018

When Amazon launched Prime Now delivery for groceries out of its Whole Foods Marketpalce subsidiary, the company turned some heads — and heard some minor complaints, since the service was only initially only available in four markets: Virginia Beach, Austin, Dallas and Cincinnati. Consumers wanted...