After a French court’s ruling restricting Amazon deliveries into the country amid coronavirus fears, the online retailer's subsequent move to appeal has suffered a stopping blow. According to the Reuters News Agency, a judge this Friday upheld the ruling in favor of French workers union...
Amazon Tests Use of Video Calls for Screening New Merchants for Fraud
Amazon is switching to the use of video calls to screen new merchants for fraud. The pilot program, which began in February, has been tested on more than 1,000 merchants based in the U.S., China, U.K.,...
Amazon’s Advertising Business Projected to Slow Down
Amazon’s stocks have been performing well amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The AMZN listing recently hit an all-time high following an uptick in the company’s cloud and e-commerce businesses. Its advertising business, however, is expected to slow down.
James Lee, an analyst at Mizuho, projects that Amazon’s ad business growth will fall to 28% from an earlier estimat...
Number of Best-Sellers on AmazonBasics Doubles in Two Years
The number of best-sellers on AmazonBasics has more than doubled over the past two years. It has risen from 660 in April 2018 to more than 1,300 in April 2020.
AmazonBasics has a lot of product categories, which include electronics and fashion. I...
Amazon’s Ultra-Fast Fresh UK Grocery Delivery Service Is Fast Approaching
Amazon Prime and Amazon Fresh are soon to launch the UK's first Ultra-Fast Fresh grocery delivery, according to a briefing to suppliers by the online retailer.
Set to increase the e-commerce giant’s penetration into the UK grocery market, Ultra-Fast Fresh could involve making Amazon Fresh an incentiv...
Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos Is Back at the Helm of the Giant Online Retailer
With the crisis created by the COVID-19 pandemic, Jeff Bezos has returned to Amazon’s day to day management roles, having distanced himself a while back.
Back in 2017, Amazon's founder and CEO had delegated to his deputies most of the immediate problem-solving duties at the global e-commerce market...
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Dwindling FBA Stocks for Non-Essentials Sees Top Amazon Sellers Reduce on Prime Shipping
Following Amazon’s decision to halt all non-essential shipments in March, its Prime warehouses have started running out of stock, affecting sellers who rely on Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA). Shipments stored in FBA have dwindled, seeing top sellers who utilize Amazon Prime shipping reduce its usage by 7% with...
Amazon Advertisers Witness Sales Surge amid Stimulus Spending
For the first time since the lockdown began, there was a significant spike in sale conversions due to record sales activity on Amazon, resonating with the best cyber Monday or Black Friday promotions. Amazon advertisers reported reinvigorated accounts as consumers across the retail landscape engaged with brands. The phenomenon was attributed...
Amazon's Parcel Delivery Powerhouse Slowly Overshadowing FedEx, USPS, and UPS
Due to the acceleration of e-commerce by the coronavirus pandemic, Amazon's shares have spiked, and obviously, package delivery is quickly becoming another of the online superstore's mainstays. Before Covid-19 struck, Amazon’s leading edge was happening through their state of the art cloud computing segment.
While studying the Amazon market ticker AMZN, analy...
Amazon Uses Thermal Cameras to Screen Warehouse Workers for Coronavirus
Amazon has begun implementing the use of thermal cameras inside all of their 50 warehouses in the United States to screen for workers who may have contracted the coronavirus. The screening process requir...
Walmart+ to Provide Alternative to Amazon Prime
Amazon has become a household name, especially with their hard-to-beat Prime membership, which gives customers a variety of perks, not the least of which is free 2-day shipping on most items. According to Recode, Walmart may have a plan to vie for some of those sales with their own version, called Walmart+.
What Is Walmart+?
Walmart already offers a prescription service called Delivery Unlimited, which offers customers same-day grocery delivery, much like Amazon Prime's Whole Food delivery service. Walmart+ would be an expanded, and probably slightly more expensive, version of Delivery Unlimited that would compete more directly with Amazon, with one important advantage: Walmart has physical locations, not just for groceries, but for everything from gas to electroni...
Amazon Needed to Save Deliveroo from Collapse
Amazon may be the only way to save Deliveroo, Bloomberg reports. The UK startup company is on the brink of collapse due to the shuttering of UK restaurants ...
Amazon waives 50% of commissions for small sellers in India
Amazon is attempting to help small businesses in India recover by offering a 50 percent waiver in their commissions until June, according to ET Rise. Only businesses earning...
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Amazon to Build Covid-19 Testing Capacity for Employees and Possibly Consumers
A letter to the shareholder by Amazon CEO Jeffrey Bezos has stated that the e-commerce giant aims to test every employee for Covid-19.
Describing the testing facilities available in the US as 'inadequate,' Bezos expressed sentiments that Amazon is building the...
Amazon no longer highlights new exclusive items, deals, or recommended products
Over the past month, Amazon has done something unheard of in the retail niche, by getting consumers to shop less on its online megastore. Deals have been removed, and there are no more product recommendations on their homepage. The frequentl...
Indications Point to Imminent Amazon Air European Launch
The biggest clue that Amazon is poised for its European freight airline unit launch came after the global online retailer advertised an area manager vacancy, located in Germany's Leipzig Airport. This position offered an opportunity for the individual that will manage Amazon Air's Europe subsidiary, lead...
French restrictions on Amazon to only ship essential goods or face hefty penalties
A French court has ordered Amazon that within 24 hours, they're only to ship essential goods to the country, failure to which the online megastore faces penalties of up to 1 million euros a day. Product deliverers to France will be limited to essential goods, allowing the natio...
Sellers Forced to Adapt to Amazon's FBA Blockade
With consumers still buying their goods, Amazon sellers are forced to adapt after the e-commerce giant suspended its shipments of "non-essential" products. Amazon's temporary suspension of all "non-essential" shipments of products to Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) warehouses on March 16 has hit Amazon sellers hard. Digital Commerce 360 reports that this suspension has yet to be lifted in early April and as the 30-day anniversary of the suspension nears, sellers have been forced to adapt.
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Amazon Affiliates and Link Players Set to Face Cuts in Commission
Website owners, media organizations, small business, and individual affiliates of Amazon who make money from redirecting link traffic, stand to lose from next week. The affiliate marketing program is due to face drastic cuts in commission for its members, with some categories...
White House Meets with Giant Tech Companies about Coronavirus
The Whitehouse recently met with representatives from giant tech companies to discuss how they can help coordinate the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The meeting that was scheduled to take place at the White House was, however, held via teleconfer...
