With Installments Push, Amazon Opens Up New Avenues to Cement Merchant Loyalty

Amazon and Chase say they have expanded their equal monthly payments offering for card members. The companies announced Tuesday (Aug. 15) that Prime Visa and Amazon Visa cardmembers can now use the installment payments offering outside of Amazon’s website and mobile app. “Amazon is always...

BigCommerce announced that it will add Amazon Pay to enable retailers to deliver a faster checkout for their Amazon customers. The company was also named a “Premier Partner” by Amazon and will join the Amazon Pay Premier Program, which will allow merchants to deploy Amazon...

We spend a lot of time talking about the impact of the “Amazon Effect” on traditional retail’s current misfortunes. But there’s another “Amazon Effect” which goes largely ignored, and which could be even more disruptive. As we heard Amazon’s VP of Payments, Patrick Gauthier, tell me...

Amazon stock (AMZN) spent the past two weeks recovering from an over $30 slip in value following the retail giant’s Q4 earnings announcement on Feb. 2. While Amazon’s EPS in Q4 outpaced analysts’ projections, coming in at $1.54 a share, over the expected $1.35, the...