Showing posts with label Amazon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amazon. Show all posts
Thursday, 14 March 2019

Latest Podcast from Hospitality Mavericks: Retail, Hospitality & Delivering Value to Savvy Consumers with Brian Moore

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Michael Tingsager and Brian share key trade insights re Amazon, the Discounters, Shrinkflation/brand equity preservation, as they affect th...
Wednesday, 13 February 2019

Amazon Secures First Sites For UK Launch Of ‘Go’ Format

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According to property sources quoted by The Grocer, the online giant has now secured sites of around 5,000 sq. ft. in “key” locations acros...
Tuesday, 20 June 2017

Amazon 'patents' a new definition of a shop...

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Amazon's latest patent, aimed at preventing alien showrooming in store (!) could be another nail in the coffin of a traditional sho...
Saturday, 17 June 2017

Amazon-Whole Foods, a small step with a big pay-off…

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Moon-landing Yesterday's agreement to buy Whole Foods for $13.7bn marks a drop-in-the ocean step-change in grocery retailing everyw...
Tuesday, 6 December 2016

Amazon Zaps the Checkout

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In another first , Amazon Go have developed a new, more convenient way of shopping. Users with the Amazon Go app on their phones simpl...
Thursday, 6 October 2016

Walmart chase Amazon, catch up not guaranteed...

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News that Walmart are accelerating their roll-out of warehouses, robotising logistics, randomising warehouse shelf- placement, speeding up...
Friday, 26 August 2016

Amazon and the need to second-guess

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From our first tentative online steps, many of us have grown comfortable in our reliance on Amazon as a simple, transparent source of anyth...
Thursday, 10 March 2016

Amazon elevates delivery to a new level by leasing 20 Boeing cargo planes

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News that its US Prime members will benefit in terms of delivery speed and availability from Amazon’s decision to in-source its bulk transp...
Thursday, 1 October 2015

Jet.com: the new 'Aldi' of eCommerce?

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A new US-only website, launched in July, Jet.com is offering another option for price-sensitive online shoppers: simply visit its site and...
Friday, 24 July 2015

Amazon's Profit - a rounding error for Apple but proof of potential for the Stock Market

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Amazon’s surprise second quarter profit of $92m, on revenue of $23.19Bn, a net margin of only 0.39% clearly leads the stock market to belie...
Thursday, 29 January 2015

'Amazon Calling' - a new email delivery service to wake up corporate providers

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News that Amazon have launched an email and calendar management service could be a surprise, but not a shock for wide-awake NAMs... Aime...
Monday, 24 November 2014

Royal Mail: the real threat of Amazon going it alone on parcel delivery

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News in The Guardian that Royal Mail shares slumped by 8.4% on Wednesday after the newly privatised postal service warned that its profits...
Wednesday, 1 October 2014

The NozamA approach to shipping from home?

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Forget packaging and waiting in lines.  Shyp picks up your items, packs, and sends them anywhere in the world using the lowest cost, mos...
Tuesday, 16 September 2014

Superdrug: the super hurdles to super online... Why anything less can’t hack it

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Marketing Week reports that A.S. Watson is launching an innovation lab to improve its digital strategy and accelerate ecommerce growth ...
Wednesday, 13 August 2014

The Amazon KAM - A new way of Managing Major Customers?

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News of Amazon’s latest issues with publishing giant Hachette and its authors, reveals the extent to which Amazon can affect markets in its...
Tuesday, 5 August 2014

Walmart playing catchup with Amazon? Seriously?

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News that Walmart are introducing personalised web pages based upon shopping behaviour for personal shoppers, represents a major leap for ...
Friday, 1 August 2014

Still think the global retailers are ignoring Amazon?

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                                                                                       Pic: via Jayaram Vengayil, via Fabio Ferraro
Thursday, 17 July 2014

Amazon ponders Netflix-like service for ebooks

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According to a Reuters' report, Amazon is considering a new e-book subscription service called "Kindle Unlimited," that aims...
Wednesday, 9 July 2014

M&S 'online' results vs. the real KPIs in online retailing

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Shareholders will obviously indicate their feelings re overall year-end results via the M&S share price, but M&S online performance...
Friday, 25 April 2014

Amazon Prime Pantry virtually boxes its way into the supermarket ring...

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The new service allows Prime loyalty club members fill up to a 45-pound virtual box with four cubic feet of groceries and get it ship...