It was something of an uneven week in the race for the consumer’s whole paycheck. Amazon had a something of a forward-backward kind of week, as an argument emerged about whether its algorithm is rigged in such a way that it is getting an extra...
There wasn’t a lot of news out of Walmart and Amazon this week, but there was perhaps a slightly higher share of big news. The big news of the second week of September for both firms was rollouts — with new services, new offerings and...
Both Amazon and Walmart topped the headlines this week, albeit for very different reasons. Amazon captured the bulk of its interest by its attempt to capture more of the average’s consumers whole paycheck with something it is adding — namely a new payment method that...
There was something of an “everything-but-the-kitchen-sink” feel to the race for the consumer’s whole paycheck this week, as both Amazon and Walmart were throwing a lot of ideas at a lot of verticals in an attempt to capture an ever-larger share of the customer’s total...
As of the first day of August 1994 more people had walked on the surface of the moon than had bought things online, because online shopping did not yet exist. That changed on the 11th day of the month that year, when the first internet...
After a few rather action-packed weeks in the race to win the consumer’s whole paycheck, this week was notably slower-paced. Table-setting for the always frenetic back end of the year seemed to be on the agenda at both Amazon and Walmart this week, with steps...
With Prime Day officially in the history books, and 2019 officially in the back stretch (July 1 marks the start of the year’s second half), the race for the consumer’s whole paycheck is speeding up, as the field sets up for that ever-exciting final sprint down the...
Most weeks, the tale of Amazon and Walmart’s ongoing battle for the larger share of the consumer’s whole paycheck is a fairly evenly run race. Stumbles happen here and there, and pull-aheads are not unheard of – but mostly, the race is made up of moves...
This week Amazon.com celebrated its 25th birthday. For the most part it’s been a good two-and-a-half decades, and it is hard to argue with Amazon’s track record of success as it remains the company in history that grew a bookstore into a trillion (almost) dollar...
