Amazon Makes Changes to Seller Policies
Amazon is implementing new seller policies this month aimed at making the shopping experience easier on the site, while also protecting consumers. Here are the categories that are most impacted by this change.
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Target, Walmart Find Fresh Ammo in Grocery Wars
After weeks of concentrating its fire on Amazon, Walmart is now dealing with a flank action from Target as the latter has fully integrated its Shipt same-day delivery service with Target.com. Walmart, for its part, just launched a $98 per year subscription program for same-day grocery delivery, a service that normally costs $9.95 per order.
4 Ways to Unlock the Amazon Buy Box
Brick-and-mortar stores continue to close their doors as ecommerce businesses are thriving in the global market. In fact, global ecommerce sales are projected to nearly double from $2.8 trillion in 2018 to $4.9 trillion in 2021. Here are four tactics merchants and sellers can begin integrating into their Amazon strategy today to increase their Buy Box share and maximize sales and profits.
Amazon Web Services Rolls Out Amazon Personalize
Amazon is rolling out Amazon Personalize to customers of its Amazon Web Services cloud computing platform. The API-based tool for app developers lets them power personalization features such as product recommendations, search results and direct marketing.
FedEx Express Decides Not to Renew Amazon Contract
FedEx has decided not to renew its air shipping contract with Amazon, which expires June 30, in a seeming reaction to Amazon’s growing delivery prowess, including construction of a new air hub outside Cincinnati. Amazon’s ground and international business with the carrier remains intact for now.
Amazon Unveils New Robotic Hybrid Drone-Plane
You just knew Amazon wasn’t going to get shut out of a DOT sanctioned drone delivery pilot program a year ago that let in Google, a FedEx/General Electric/Intel team and Uber, and take it lying down. The ecommerce giant unveiled a bold new delivery system that’s part drone, part aircraft and part robot that uses sensors, AI and ML.
Amazon Makes 10 Million Items Available for Prime One-Day Delivery
Amazon just turned up the heat in the three-way battle for dominance atop ecommerce sellers, announcing more than 10 million items eligible for its new one-day delivery standard via Prime. This compares with 220,000 items available for free next-day delivery from Walmart, announced in mid-May, and 35,000 from Target ReStock.
The Big Pivot: Why Is Everybody Chasing Amazon?
Is emulating Amazon enough to succeed? No, because very few companies have the resources. For most, winning the war means quietly striking partnerships and collaboration initiatives with competitors that were once unthinkable. At the center of these initiatives are new collaboration brokers, enabling product innovation at scale.
Largest Two-Story Fulfillment Center in U.S. Going Up in the Bronx
The largest two-story fulfillment center in the country will be under construction later this year in the Bronx, NY, with a planned 2021 opening, enabling ecommerce tenants to service the New York metro market with same-day delivery. It will total 969,000 square feet, including 595,000 square feet of fulfillment space.
Stein Mart Looks to Amazon Lockers, Other Initiatives to Boost Sales
Stein Mart has become the latest retailer to partner with Amazon, betting that increased traffic to the ecommerce giant’s lockers in the back of its stores for order pickup and returns will translate to sales for the struggling discount chain. The lockers will be located in about 200 of Stein Mart’s 283 stores by early June.