Amazon news and analysis – Page 22
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Comment & OpinionCan AmazonFresh really crack the online grocery market in the UK?
In a grocery environment where rapid delivery is becoming the norm, Amazon’s speed and agility is hardly a USP
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NewsAmazon discontinues sale of Dash ordering buttons
Amazon is to continue taking orders placed using the buttons while withdrawing the devices themselves from sale globally…
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Comment & OpinionAmazon is Go - but will the concept really work in the UK?
It’s been difficult to take these reports entirely seriously
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Analysis & FeaturesHow will Amazon Go shake up grocery shopping in the UK?
Is it time for UK supermarkets to reassess the tech giant’s threat?
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NewsAmazon secures central London retail space for Amazon Go
The sites will be devoted to the UK’s first Amazon Go stores, where customers are automatically charged for their shopping
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NewsAmazon reports huge increase in net sales for 2018
Fourth-quarter operating income was $3.8bn compared with $2.1bn the year before
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NewsAmazon expands health & beauty presence with own-label make-up and vitamins
The online retailer has added 17 colour cosmetics SKUs to its Find own-brand, which it already uses for clothing
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Analysis & FeaturesWhat expensive ketchup can tell us about Amazon's grocery strategy
We asked Ray Gaul of Kantar Consulting to explain Amazon’s own-label pricing strategy on ketchup - and what it tells us about its wider grocery ambitions
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NewsAmazon launches autonomous robot deliveries with US trial
Six of the ‘small cooler’ sized robots began making deliveries yesterday in an area of Snohomish County, Washington
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Analysis & FeaturesHas Amazon disrupted advertising too?
How the digital retailer is standing out in an advertising landscape that still relies on TV
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NewsAmazon calls end to Restaurants takeaway delivery service
Amazon Restaurants first launched in Seattle in 2015 before coming to London in 2016
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NewsHow Amazon’s move into premium whisky could threaten booze retailers this Christmas
It’s the first time big names in posh whisky have been bottled exclusively for Amazon. So what challenges does this create for online competitors?
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Comment & OpinionAdvantage Amazon and D2C: retailers face a double threat
Suppliers are looking seriously at direct-to-consumer options, says David Sables. And the consequences for retailers are potentially serious
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Analysis & FeaturesInside Amazon's Tilbury FC: is the controversy justified?
Stories of exhausted staff don’t stop Amazon opening its doors to the public
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Comment & OpinionAmazon’s supermarket rivals are fuming over CMA decision
It comes days after the Chancellor rejected calls for an online sales tax on companies including Amazon
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NewsAmazon and Alliance Boots escape inclusion under GCA remit
Ocado and B&M are set to be included under GSCOP
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Analysis & FeaturesOwn-label showcase: Amazon private-label brands
In recent months Amazon has ramped up its activity in grocery and the retailer now sells private-label products in bulk across several categories
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NewsAmazon to create up to 1,000 new jobs at three UK sites
The internet giant is to open new offices in Manchester and increase capacity at its Edinburgh and Cambridge centres
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Analysis & FeaturesCMA to include Aldi and Lidl in Sainsbury's-Asda probe
The move appears to increase the chances of the merger going ahead without a huge disposal of stores
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NewsAmazon to install solar panels at 10 UK distribution centres
The move is part of Amazon’s commitment to deploy solar systems on 50 DCs globally by 2020