Tag: Amazon

June 23, 2023

Two reports in recent days show how social media app TikTok is working to capitalize on users’ propensity to shop products featured in its short-form videos. TechCrunch said TikTok confirmed a report in the Financial Times that it is testing […]

June 6, 2023

The collaboration with Hexa marks Amazon’s continued experimentation with augmented reality. With Hexa’s technology, Amazon sellers can also create high-definition marketing materials, such as packshots and lifestyle images, from their 3D images, Hexa Chief Technology Officer Jonathan Clark said in […]

April 28, 2023

Amazon’s ad sales remained resilient in Q1 despite an uncertain economic environment that has led marketers to tap the brakes on spending. Like many in the tech world, the company took care to highlight the benefits of automation in improving […]

March 28, 2023

Picture this … it’s late at night, and you can’t sleep. You pick up your phone, maybe browse a few apps but get bored quickly. You see the Amazon app begging you to step into that magical wonderland of limitless […]

March 6, 2023

UPS plans to further reduce its business with top customer Amazon in 2023, even as both companies face obstacles that could complicate their mutually agreed cutback. Amazon is shifting away from UPS and other carriers as it works to build […]

March 6, 2023

Amazon’s decision to close several of its Go stores comes just weeks after it opened a location in Puyallup, Washington, that follows its larger suburban-focused format. The retailer also opened a number of locations last year in Southern California. As […]

February 24, 2023

With Amazon’s disruption of U.S. retail arguably ebbing, emerging e-commerce markets like India’s may be especially enticing. It may seem surprising that Amazon would join an effort that aims to even the playing field in India’s still developing e-commerce landscape, […]

December 26, 2022

Six months after Amazon said it would begin drone deliveries in two American towns by the end of the year, it’s a reality. Local news media are reporting that delivery by drone began just days before Christmas. Amazon spokesperson Paul […]

November 29, 2022

Amazon is obsessed with inventory turnover, which is how fast products ship out after they’re stocked on fulfillment center shelves. So it’s baffling when sellers report inventory they ship to FBA warehouses go missing. Compounding matters, many say they’re unable […]

October 28, 2022

The charges outlined in the NLRB complaint cite statements Jassy made during interviews with CNBC and Bloomberg. In an April interview with CNBC, he said that if employees were represented by a union they would be less empowered in the […]

October 14, 2022

As the father of two teenage daughters, I can tell you first-hand that when I think of the (very) ubiquitous social media app, TikTok, logistics is far from top of mind. But that may now be changing, it seems. The […]

September 15, 2022

If yesterday’s news from Amazon’s seller conference seemed all about brands, regular sellers got some good news on day-two of Amazon Accelerate – including faster payouts and free access to multichannel shipping software from a service that previously cost $450/month. […]

August 17, 2022

For businesses selling on Amazon, using the company’s fulfillment services instead of other carriers will no longer shield them from added peak season shipping costs. As Amazon noted in its announcement, the fee is similar to the surcharges or price […]

July 1, 2022

After nearly doubling its operations capacity over the past two years to keep up with a pandemic-fueled demand surge, Amazon is pumping the brakes on its expansion plans. CFO Brian Olsavsky said in April that the company built more fulfillment […]

April 15, 2022

Last year I needed an extravagant sports jacket for an event I was attending. The jacket needed to be gold. At any rate I decided to do what any logical consumer would do — search for “gold sports jacket” on […]

March 8, 2022

The US Postal Service said it jumped into action after a tornado destroyed an Amazon facility in Illinois and killed six workers inside in December. The night of the tornado, a USPS accounts director reached out to Amazon, and the […]

February 21, 2022

Amazon is offering new discounts on shipping for sellers who purchase shipping labels through its Buy Shipping program. The company announced the program today (Monday), and sellers are attempting to learn more about when the new discount applies. Amazon wrote, […]

February 11, 2022

Marketers are always challenged to raise their machine learning knowledge but have few options to do so without being overwhelmed by programming code. Amazon recognized this need, seeing the popularity of low-code and no-code platforms. Late last year, Amazon introduced […]

January 18, 2022

Amazon warned sellers enrolled in its FBA program not to send canceled or deleted shipments to its fulfillment centers. Not only might it reject such shipments, but it warned, “Your ability to send us additional shipments may also be suspended.” […]

December 13, 2021

UPS Principal Scientist Ranganath Nuggehalli discussed holiday supply chain challenges in a new interview released by INFORMS. He also discusses what the shipping carrier is doing to anticipate and respond to the challenges. Nuggehalli said UPS processes about 20 million […]