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20 January 2014
Amazon is to introduce Sunday deliveries to seven areas across the UK, following a successful pilot over the Christmas period. Increased convenience The service will be available in  London, Birmingham, Milton Keynes, Oxford, Nottingham, Manchester and Leeds and will be provided by Amazon Logistics, which operates a number of delivery hubs. It follows a trial in the capital during December. A...
20 January 2014
Amazon has patented a method to begin shipping packages to customers before they know they want them, a concept it calls "anticipatory shipping". Anticipating demand Amazon's patent aims to use big data to anticipate items that customers may wish to buy and then shipping these closer to them, The Wall Street Journal  reports. This could involve packages waiting at shippers' hubs or on delivery...
05 December 2013
Online retail giant Amazon is testing a futuristic approach to delivering goods to customers in the form of unmanned drones. Pilot drones guided by GPS Technology, can deliver up to 2.3kg "Octocopters" can potentially deliver packages of up to 2.3 kg to customers within half hour of confirming an order with the online retailer. According to Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, these packages re...
31 October 2013
Amazon Canada has expanded its range of products to include more than 15,000 packaged grocery items. The online specialist has also added 200,000 auto parts to its offer in the country. Broad range of categories and brands offers The launch of this expanded grocery range builds on a number of new categories which Amazon has added in Canada this year including beauty, household products and t...
30 July 2013
Following on from the company’s second quarter results announcement, Amazon discussed its Amazon Fresh and its ‘Prime’ offers. Fresh: ‘It’s a good customer experience’ Discussing Amazon’s extension of its Fresh offer to Los Angeles, the company’s senior vice president and chief financial officer, Thomas J Szkutak, highlighted how it had been trialling the service in Seattle in order to make i...