With a current market value of over $400 billion, Amazon is the undisputed king of online retailers. After successfully beating …
Amazon’s Ambitions Unboxed: Stores for Furniture, Appliances and More
10 Monday Jul 2017
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Retail Tidbit: Can Amazon Cash Open E-Commerce Up to Millions of Underbanked Consumers?
08 Thursday Jun 2017
Posted in Retail Tidbits
For approximately 51 million Americans, access to conventional banking services is challenging or even nonexistent. These “underbanked” consumers often lack …
Retail Tidbit: Amazon Considers Floating Warehouses
05 Sunday Mar 2017
Posted in Retail Tidbits
Amazon seemingly has been sampling some of the books in its science fiction category. In a recently discovered (and approved) …
What Will Amazon Gain from its Charitable Shipping Efforts?
01 Wednesday Mar 2017
Sometimes, a solution offers up benefits for everyone involved. That seems to be the case for a recent initiative adopted …
Is There Time for QVC in the Age of Amazon?
15 Wednesday Feb 2017
Posted in Chapter 02: Types of Retailers
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Sales might have slipped at QVC, but the home shopping retailer seems largely unconcerned. The reason stems from its unique …
Retail Tidbit: Amazon Tests One-Click Product Placement
20 Thursday Oct 2016
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Two of Amazon’s most popular and effective innovations have been its 1-Click purchasing option and its development of content offerings …
Retail Tidbit: Amazon Wants to Use Lampposts, Churches as Drone ‘Perches’
11 Tuesday Oct 2016
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In additional drone news, Amazon has received a patent for its design for docking stations that it hopes someday to …
Birkenstock Quits Amazon in US After Counterfeit Surge
30 Friday Sep 2016
Posted in Chapter 13: Buying Merchandise
Counterfeiting is a serious problem for well-known and reputed brands. So serious, in fact, that it is causing Birkenstock, the …
Retail Tidbit: Amazon Tiptoes into Banking Business Through Student Loans
24 Saturday Sep 2016
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In an innovative collaboration with Wells Fargo, Amazon will offer student subscribers to its Prime service access to discounted loans …
Are Shipping Losses the New Normal in Retailing?
04 Thursday Aug 2016
Posted in Chapter 07: Financial Strategy
Let’s say you earn $29 billion in revenues a single quarter and more than $100 billion for the year. Do …
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