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18 July 2019
Amazon is described as the “everything store” but food and consumer goods are particularly important to it. With shoppers on average conducting 24 grocery shopping trips a month, Amazon wants to benefit from the high frequency of purchase to drive traffic to its websites. This will help it to attract more vendors, increase its selection, intensify competition and provide a better customer exper...
18 July 2019
Amazon Prime Day started on 15 th July this year, and lasted for 48 hours, the longest Prime Day so far. The event was the largest sales day in Amazon history, with more than one million exclusive deals for Prime members. Biggest shopping event in Amazon history Prime Day is Amazon’s summer sales event, where Prime members in various countries are offered exclusive discounts on more than o...
05 July 2019
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has said it will look into the details of Amazon’s significant investment in food courier service Deliveroo. $575m funding round In May, Amazon became the biggest investor in a $575m investment round in Deliveroo , with the exact amount Amazon spent unknown. Deliveroo said the new investment will contribute to expanding its London based engineeri...
01 July 2019
Amazon has announced it has expanded its AmazonFresh service to offer one- and two- hour delivery in Las Vegas across a range of products. Rapid delivery on thousands of products Amazon has rolled out its AmazonFresh service to Las Vegas, where Prime members can now shop thousands of products across multiple categories. These categories include fresh groceries and everyday essentials, beaut...
26 June 2019
Amazon launches new specialist beauty store in the US, designed to cater for industry professionals. Developing the beauty offer Amazon has launched a new beauty store in the US, designed to cater for professionals in the industry. The online platform offers beauty professionals including barbers, stylists and beauty therapists more convenient access to specialist products typically foun...
13 June 2019
Amazon has announced it will close its US Amazon Restaurants delivery business, as reported by GeekWire. Closure of the service Amazon is set to close its Amazon Restaurants service later this month. The food delivery service launched in Seattle in 2015, offering Prime members meal delivery using the Amazon Restaurants website or via the Prime Now app. Amazon Restaurants was available acros...
13 June 2019
Morrisons is rolling out its home delivery deal with online retailer Amazon to more cities, while Waitrose extends its Rapid Delivery trial to more London postcodes. Expansion of home delivery deal with Amazon Following the announcement of their supply agreement in 2016, Morrisons is extending its home delivery deal with Amazon. The expansion will see new cities benefit from the delivery de...
07 June 2019
Amazon has announced it is set to launch its autonomous drone delivery service ‘within months’. 15 miles in less than 30 minutes Amazon’s drone delivery service, Prime Air, will deliver packages under five pounds to customers in less than 30 minutes using drones that can fly up to 15 miles. According to Amazon, Prime Air will be rolled out to customers within months. It is not known yet whe...
06 June 2019
Amazon is rolling out physical kiosks in train stations throughout London that will sell a rotating range of products. Extension of Amazon Treasure Truck The kiosks are an extension of Amazon’s Treasure Truck concept, that launched in the UK in 2017. Treasure Truck features one item at a time, and customers can sign up to the receive a text notification to let them know when the truck will ...
05 June 2019
Amazon has announced it has rolled out free next-day delivery to more than ten million products for Prime members. Free one-day delivery ten times larger than original two-day offering Amazon first launched two-day delivery in 2005, with one million items available to ship using the service. In Q4 2018, the retailer announced that it had expanded same-day delivery and one-day delivery to mo...