SEATTLE — Amazon has introduced Climate Pledge Friendly, an initiative designed to make it easier for customers to discover and shop for more sustainable products. With this new program, customers will now see the Climate Pledge Friendly label when searching for more than 25,000 products to signify that the products have one or more of
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. — Amazon opened a new grocery store concept on Thursday, expanding beyond its Whole Foods chain as it seeks to become a major food retailer. “Today we’re announcing the Amazon Fresh grocery store—a new grocery store designed from the ground up to offer a seamless grocery shopping experience, whether customers are shopping
SEATTLE — Amazon has introduced Amazon Halo, a new service dedicated to helping customers improve their individual health and wellness. Amazon Halo combines a suite of AI-powered health features that provide actionable insights into overall wellness via the new Amazon Halo app with the Amazon Halo Band, which uses multiple advanced sensors to provide the
SEATTLE — Jeff Wilke, chief executive of Amazon’s worldwide consumer business, plans to retire from the company in early 2021. He will be succeeded by Dave Clark, who has served as senior vice president of worldwide operations at Amazon. The move was announced Friday morning in an email by Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff
SEATTLE — Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, announced Wednesday that Moderna has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider, as well as its standard for analytics and machine learning workloads. Leveraging its mRNA platform and manufacturing facility with the AWS-powered research engine, Moderna delivered the first clinical batch of its vaccine candidate (mRNA-1273)
NEW YORK — Recent data gathered by Learnbonds.com indicates that online retail giant Amazon had 4.06 billion unique visitors in March. According to the data, this figure was more compared to combined visitors for the other five leading online stores. The data shows that eBay, Apple, Walmart, Rakuten, Samsung.com, and Apple.com had cumulative visitors of 3.85
SEATTLE — Amazon announced this week that it is prioritizing shipments of medical supplies and household staples that come into its warehouses to help it respond to massive consumer demand during the coronavirus pandemic. The online retailer reported to its suppliers that it will not accept any shipments of non-essential consumer goods until April 5.
SEATTLE — Amazon upsized its Amazon Go checkout-free store concept on Tuesday with the opening of its first Amazon Go Grocery store, which measures 10,400 square feet and carries about 5,000 products, including perishables like fresh meat and produce, and household items like paper towels. The new store is more than four times the size
SEATTLE — Amazon shares rose in after-hours trading Thursday after the company reported fourth quarter results that topped analysts’ expectations. The company reported earnings per share of $6.47 for the quarter, easily beating forecasts of $4.04 per share. Net sales increased 21% to $87.4 billion in the fourth quarter. Net income grew to $3.3 billion
SEATTLE – Amazon announced that this holiday season was record-breaking one thanks to its customers all around the world. The company said the billions of items were ordered worldwide and tens of millions of Amazon Devices were purchased worldwide. Throughout the season, Amazon said it offered customers incredible deals every day and deeper discounts and
SEATTLE — According to published reports from CNBC, PillPack has updated its logo and other paperwork to include a new “Amazon Pharmacy” brand, and its chief executive officer, TJ Parker, has been promoted to vice president within Amazon. Specifically, the group’s branding has changed from “PillPack, an Amazon company” to “PillPack by Amazon Pharmacy.” It’s
NEW YORK — Amazon’s Prime Day 2019 marked a milestone for KIND Healthy Snacks (KIND). Over the two-day shopping period, KIND garnered the highest sales of Amazon’s food category within 48 hours, according to leading eCommerce performance analytics platform Profitero. “Amazon is, and has always been, an integral part of our selling strategy,” says Mike
SEATTLE — Amazon has acquired health care startup Health Navigator LLC to help bolster its recently launched primary care program for employees, called Amazon Care, which combines telemedicine checkups, at-home or in-office doctor’s visits and prescription deliveries. Chicago-based Health Navigator operates a platform that helps health care providers serve patients remotely with telemedicine services. The
SEATTLE — Amazon has announced the expansion of Counter, a network of staffed pickup points that gives customers the option to pick up their Amazon packages in-store at a partner location. With this expansion, customers now have access to thousands more Amazon Hub Counter locations with Amazon’s new store partners Health Mart, GNC and Stage