Amazon is expanding its tech hub in Denver with a new office and 400 new tech jobs, it announced on Tuesday. The company has created more than 3,500 full-time jobs in Colorado, including customer fulfillment and retail facilities, and has Read more
Walmart isn’t taking the news of Amazon 1-day Free Prime Shipping lying down. It hinted in a Tweet that it would do the same – but without requiring a membership fee. “One-day free shipping…without a membership fee. Now THAT would Read more
BuzzFeed News reporter Leticia Miranda dug into the high-stakes world of Amazon “optimization” and found consultants offering black hat tactics to “cheat the marketplace and mislead customers.” It shouldn’t really come as a surprise that some sellers would try to Read more
Beginning this summer, Amazon customers will be able to return their purchases to all Kohl’s stores. The companies began a returns pilot program in 2017 which is currently available at 100 Kohl’s stores in Los Angeles, Chicago and Milwaukee markets. Read more
Amazon is giving away some translated foreign-language ebooks “in hopes of showing more readers the joys of translated text,” explaining its reasoning as follows: “The translation of literature plays a vital role in global entertainment, but it’s also essential in Read more
Some states have targeted online sellers for marketplace service fees, and today, Amazon followed up with more details after sending an email to sellers last week. Here’s a link to our initial coverage in the April 12th EcommerceBytes Blog about Read more
Amazon announced this week that it created over 3,200 new permanent jobs across Spain in 2018 alone. It ended 2017 with 1,600 permanent employees, and now has 4,800 permanent employees. Amazon also revealed it has invested over 1.1 billion euros Read more
Amazon issued a press release on Tuesday announcing it had found 50 ways to help its sellers this year. The marketplace said it had launched new tools and services to help small and medium-sized businesses succeed in selling their products Read more
What are sellers talking about this week? We pulled out a few topics from the Amazon discussion boards in today’s column. Amazon sellers are discussing changes to the Order Detail page. Change for the sake of change? Or is it Read more
Amazon is expanding its tech hub in Austin, Texas and will create 800 new tech jobs, and it will open a new 145,000 square-foot office in the city. The company revealed it employs over 20,000 people in its 17 Tech Read more
