In Amazon warehouses, workers remain constantly busy, incentivized to keep up with the fast-paced movement of products into boxes and …
Retail Tidbit: Amazon Gamifying Warehouse Worker Performance
07 Friday May 2021
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Tag Archives: Amazon
What Is Amazon Trying to Achieve with its Newest Experiment, a Hair Salon?
03 Monday May 2021
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Why would Amazon open a hair salon? And why might consumers and business customers patronize it? The answers to these …
Retail Tidbits: Canada Takes on Amazon to Promote Shopping Locally
19 Friday Mar 2021
Posted in Retail Tidbits
With their vast shipping and distribution operations, big retailers like Amazon and Walmart enjoyed increased sales throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, …
Competitive Developments in the Pharmacy Market
22 Friday Jan 2021
Posted in Chapter 06: Retail Market Strategy
Some radical changes are afoot in the U.S. retail pharmacy market. In announcements released just days apart, both Amazon and …
The Drones Are Coming!… Someday. A Step Forward in Amazon’s Ambitious Plans for the Future
02 Monday Nov 2020
Several years ago, Jeff Bezos boldly promised that drone delivery would be ready nearly any time now. His timing prediction …
Get It, Go, Just Walk Out: Amazon’s Proposed Reinvention of the Checkout Process
10 Monday Aug 2020
Why would Amazon, with its primarily online offerings, develop new and advanced technology to facilitate physical, in-store purchasing? Because it …
Prime Competition: The Arrival of Walmart+
03 Monday Aug 2020
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Amazon, Amazon Prime, Customer service, Introduction to Retailing, Retail Market Strategy, Walmart
Although Walmart might prefer to avoid a direct, head-to-head comparison, it’s hard not to consider the offerings involved in its …
Retail Tidbit: Amazon Is Testing Just How Fast Delivery Can Be with New Fulfillment Centers
24 Friday Apr 2020
In four U.S. cities (Phoenix, Orlando, Dallas, and Philadelphia), Amazon Prime members enjoy even faster delivery options than people in …
Amazon Returns Are Getting Easier—And More Environmentally Friendly
02 Monday Mar 2020
Amazon is a lot of things to a lot of people, but one thing that it has never been able …
FedEx Says Its Ending Express Shipping Service for Amazon
15 Thursday Aug 2019
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Amazon’s unending, seemingly inevitable growth can be both a threat and an opportunity for its supply chain partners. For FedEx, …
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