Amazon news and analysis – Page 3
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Analysis & FeaturesTemu: how long can brands ignore cut-price Chinese marketplace?
As its user base balloons, should brands risk getting involved?
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Comment & OpinionAmazon ruins GSCOP’s reputation. Why is the GCA allowing it?
Amazon entered the GCA’s jurisdiction as a serial code offender and has been allowed to get worse, says David Sables, CEO of Sentinel Management Consultants
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NewsMedia Bites 11 March: high street figures, Amazon robots and beef shortages
Gloomy high street figures for February were the main story in the nationals this morning
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Comment & OpinionEven Poundland is struggling. What now for the UK high street?
It’s been a big week for the high street, with a WH Smith selloff and a ‘potential’ Poundland sale dominating the retail headlines
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NewsUK food and drink sellers take to Chinese marketplace Temu
Tetley and Yorkshire teabags, Candy Kittens sweets, Fanta, Nerds, Tassimo coffee pods and Bounty wafer rolls are among the slew of products being sold via Chinese cut-price marketplace Temu by UK-based resellers
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Grocer 33Waitrose on top as online 33 retailers score highly
High scores were the order of the day for most retailers in this online Grocer 33
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NewsDeliveroo plays down Will Shu exit reports
The company insisted the founder has no plans to leave
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Comment & OpinionSainsbury’s checkout-free backtrack shows hybrid is best
A hybrid approach to scanning and payment in stores removes physical and psychological barriers to entry, says Bryan Roberts, retail futures senior partner at IGD
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Comment & OpinionIt’s all over for Amazon Just Walk Out technology in grocery
The fact is: Just Walk Out technology is just not all that frictionless
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NewsMedia Bites 7 February: ‘stagflation’, high street footfall, tariff warnings
Papers are leading on the impact of yesterday’s interest rate cut
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Analysis & FeaturesWhat shoppers really think about self-checkout machines revealed
Despite its age and ubiquity, self-checkout technology remains controversial. Our survey reveals what shoppers really make of them, as we look to an even more high-tech future
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NewsSainsbury’s strips out Just Walk Out tech from checkout-free store
The supermarket was Amazon’s first international customer of its cashierless Just Walk Out technology
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Comment & OpinionHow did Aldi end up charging shoppers £10 to enter a store?
The ‘pre-authorisation’ fee at Aldi’s Shop & Go store in Greenwich has turned ‘just walk out’ into ‘just walk out at least £10 worse off’
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NewsAmazon appoints Whole Foods CEO to lead its grocery stores globally
Jason Buechel replaces Tesco veteran Tony Hoggett, who departed the company in October
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Analysis & FeaturesShould Amazon be worried about Tesco’s marketplace?
Tesco Marketplace has swelled by over 1,000% to 300,000 SKUs
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Comment & OpinionDoug Gurr running the CMA: what could possibly go wrong?
There is clearly still grrr in the Gurr, with the 60-year-old today announced as the new interim chairman of the Competition & Markets Authority
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Comment & OpinionAmazon would fight a GSCOP investigation tooth and nail
Groceries Code Adjudicator Mark White needs to take care before he goes into battle with Amazon
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NewsAmazon pulls own-label ready meal range
‘Like all retailers, we continually review our range and test new selection with customers,’ a spokesman said
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NewsGroceries Code Adjudicator weighs up consequences of investigation into Amazon
Amazon came rock bottom in the 2024 poll, with its perceived code compliance score falling from 59% to 47%
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Comment & OpinionAmazon’s £1 meal deal is savvy but misses the point
Where can you get a lunch for £1 these days? Ironically, it’s not Poundland, whose meal deal will set you back £3. Instead, Amazon has emerged as the surprising champion of the round-pound lunch