Amazon is opening a new fulfillment center in Canada. The 600,000 square-foot warehouse in the Calgary area is the first in Alberta and will fulfill items “ranging from aviator sunglasses to zebra costumes.” It joins 6 other fulfillment centers in Read more
Amazon announced today its third-quarter sales (July, August, September) grew 34% year-over-year to $43.7 billion. Excluding Whole Foods Market and the impact from foreign exchange rates, net sales increased 29% compared with third quarter 2016. Excerpt of press release follows: Read more
The mailbox may soon be a quaint throwback as retailers look to deliver packages right inside your home, and Amazon is going even further with a new service launched on Tuesday. Amazon Key enables in-home delivery at no extra cost Read more
Amazon is opening a new fulfillment center in Arizona. The news came in a press release announcing Amazon’s 10-year anniversary operating in the state, where it employs 6,000 people and intends to hire another 1,000. Amazon also revealed it has Read more
Amazon launched a new Handmade Gift Shop featuring items from its Amazon Handmade marketplace sellers. Launched in 2015, Amazon Handmade now features hundreds of thousands of handcrafted items in 10 categories, including Jewelry, Home & Kitchen, Stationary and Party Supplies, Read more
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
