While Amazon can spend $21.7 billion on shipping to meet growing customer expectations, everyone else can’t and ecommerce entrepreneurs need to develop a well-thought-out strategy to address evolving demands. You need to consider these four factors before investing in the urban fulfillment center trend.
As it battles back against numerous media reports of working conditions in its fulfillment and sortation centers, Amazon has a new PR battle on its hands – a report that it has given workers raises of just 25 to 55 cents an hour, according to the Washington Post.
Snap Inc. announced it is testing a new way to search for products on Amazon from the Snapchat camera on its app. Here is how customers can use it and connect to the marketplace giant.
Amazon’s new Storefronts, a site that lets shoppers browse from a curated list of more than 1 million items sold by 20,000 small-to-medium-sized businesses in the U.S., bears a passing resemblance to leading artisan site and competitor Etsy. Here are the plans the marketplace giant has to promote its newest initiative.
Amazon is investigating claims that employees are taking bribes in exchange for data that gives sellers an edge, particularly in the superheated Chinese market, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
Jet.com will begin selling products from Nike in New York and offer customers more delivery options in a bid to compete with Amazon for urban, affluent consumers, according to media reports, with expansion to follow in other major markets.
Amazon has ordered 20,000 trucks from Mercedes-Benz to help power its new army of entrepreneurs creating small delivery businesses that will help Prime orders along the last mile to customers’ doorsteps.
For many companies, peak season hiring is an absolute necessity. The quality and the number of hourly workers can mean success or failure in fulfillment and for your company’s service level and profitability. In many businesses, hiring decisions are underway. These 12 considerations will help you succeed at this annual exercise.
A Senate hearing on a task force report recommending U.S. Postal Service reforms, scheduled for Sept. 5, has been postponed as President Donald Trump is delaying release of the report. No new date has been set, indefinitely postponing any legislative action, including possible raising of postal rates or even privatization.
Target continues to fire on all cylinders in terms of fulfillment, delivery and omnichannel, expanding its delivery from store and curbside pickup programs ahead of the holidays and seeing strong growth in its Shipt same-day delivery service.