Tag: amazon
Amazon partners with Grubhub for restaurant deliveries
- General News
Amazon and Grubhub today announced they are partnering to make restaurant delivery to customers’ doors more convenient and affordable.
Amazon introduces low-cost grocery delivery subscription for Prime members using EBT
- Retail
Amazon announced a new grocery delivery subscription benefit now available to Prime members and customers using EBT in more than 3,500 cities and towns across the U.S.
The Produce Reporter Week in Review – April 5, 2024
- Analysis
Greg and Pamela show off some new Aldi swag to talk about how Aldi and Lidl are succeeding with food inflation. Amazon Fresh is ditching Just Walk Out technology. The technology had some flaws, but Pamela says there's more to the story.
Amazon walks away from Just Walk Out technology
- Retail
Amazon is pulling the plug on its Just Walk Out technology in the U.S., which lets customers buy items in select Amazon Fresh stores without waiting in line.
Dunnhumby index shows Amazon leads U.S. retailers in personalization
- Featured
dunnhumby, the global leader in customer data science, today released a special edition of the dunnhumby Retailer Preference Index (RPI), designed to determine which retailers in the $1 trillion U.S. grocery market personalize the shopping experience best for their customers.
2.2 million pounds of sweet potatoes and more: Amazon Fresh shares Thanksgiving sales stats
- Retail
Amazon Fresh shared its Thanksgiving holiday deals, along with some expert tips for building a meal fo ra family of five for under $50.
Why the FTC beef with Amazon excludes grocery
- Featured
The Federal Trade Commission and 17 state attorneys general sued Amazon Inc., September 26, alleging that the online retailer is a monopolist that uses anticompetitive and unfair strategies to illegally maintain its monopoly power.
Amazon Fresh faces layoffs, store reconfigurations
- Featured
Amazon Fresh is making some changes to a few Chicago-area stores as it faces layoffs and lawsuits over stalled store openings.
Amazon and the antitrust artillery
- Analysis
I’ve been a member of the Authors Guild since 1999. Recently over lunch I was reading an article by Umair Kazi in the spring 2023 Authors Guild Bulletin. It talks about a merger between major publishing companies—Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster—that was disallowed by the Justice Department, leading to a legal case (US vs. Bertelsmann) that ruled against the merger in November 2022.
Kroger, Albertsons, and the Amazon fiasco
- Featured
Insider has run an article suggesting that Amazon could buy the supermarkets of which a combined Kroger-Albertsons chain would have to divest itself if its proposed merger is approved.