Amazon will open another Fulfillment Center in the UK, this one in Bolton, the third FC in the north West of England. The warehouse will use advanced Amazon Robotics technology, and Amazon will begin hiring in 2018. Last year Amazon Read more
Amazon published its 2017 Holiday Toy List, Electronics Gift Guide and Home Gift Guide today. The company’s product experts curated the lists using inspiration from “influencers, kids and parents.” Amazon said 72 percent of its customers last year shopped using Read more
Amazon is hiring 120,000 seasonal workers in the US to ship holiday orders, it announced on Thursday. They will join the 125,000 regular, full-time employees at Amazon’s more than 75 fulfillment centers across the country. The company noted it has Read more
Amazon found another way to wring benefits from its Prime membership program: allow teens to shop using their parents’ accounts. The benefits to the company are clear – making it easier for household members to shop results in greater sales, Read more
Amazon published what was more of a Request for Proposal than a press release as it seeks a city in which to build a second North American headquarters. It said the new headquarters would be a full equal to Amazon’s Read more
Amazon announced its first fulfillment center in the state of New York. The new 855,000-square-foot fulfillment center will be located in Staten Island and will be used to fulfill what it called household essentials, books, and toys. Press release follows: Read more
AbeBooks is refunding a week’s worth of fees to sellers after a 2-day outage. The media marketplace owned by Amazon experienced a rare but serious outage over the weekend, and on Monday it sent an email to sellers with an Read more
Amazon will officially buy Whole Foods Market on Monday and has promised to immediately start lowering prices. Eventually it will make Amazon Prime the supermarket’s customer rewards program, providing Prime members with special savings and other in-store benefits. And Amazon Read more
The next two weeks will see many students returning back to school, signaling the precursor to the holiday shopping season. It also means marketplaces should wrap up testing and changes so they can provide stability to sellers who are focused Read more
A new report details retailers’ struggles with Amazon. Bluecore surveyed retail executives in May and found 56% of those surveyed believe Amazon’s presence in their markets has increased in the past two years, and 30% currently sell through Amazon. Bluecore Read more
