September 9, 2021 by Chain Drug Review
Amazon
Leading Headlines, Retail News
SEATTLE — Amazon said Thursday that it will fund full college tuition for its front-line employees as part of a $1.2 billion investment in expanded education and skills training benefits for its U.S. employees. Along with college tuition, the company’s Career Choice program will fund high school diplomas, GEDs, and English as a Second Language
September 1, 2021 by Chain Drug Review
Amazon, Andy Jassy
Leading Headlines, Retail News
SEATTLE — Amazon said Wednesday that it is hiring to fill more than 40,000 corporate and tech roles across the country, as well as tens of thousands of hourly positions in its operations network. As part of that effort, the company said it will hold “its biggest-ever training and recruiting event,” Amazon Career Day, on
August 21, 2021 by Chain Drug Review
Amazon
Retail News
NEW YORK — In the week that big-box retailers reported that shoppers are returning to stores came news of Amazon.com Inc.’s latest brick-and-mortar experiment. Citing people familiar with the plans, The Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon intends to open retail locations that would operate much like department stores, selling apparel, personal-technology gadgets, household items and other
August 11, 2021 by Tom Furphy
Amazon, chairman of ideoclick Inc., Tom Furphy is chief executive officer and managing director of Consumer Equity Partners.
August 9, 2021, Opinion
Amazon has spent the last few years methodically entering the retail pharmacy market. Powered by their day one attitude, over 100 million Prime households in the U.S., and a penchant for disrupting large, inefficient industries, Amazon is well positioned to disrupt and gain significant share of the U.S. pharmacy business. Doing this will further strengthen
July 30, 2021 by Chain Drug Review
Amazon
Business, Leading Headlines, Retail News
SEATTLE — Amazon on Thursday reported net sales of $113.1 billion for the second quarter, an increase of 27% compared with the same period last year. That result fell short of analysts’ expectations, and the company’s stock fell in after-hours trading. Like many retailers, Amazon is facing tough comparisons with 2020, when the pandemic drove
May 26, 2021 by Chain Drug Review
Amazon, MGM Studio
Leading Headlines, Retail News
SEATTLE — Amazon has agreed to purchase the entertainment company MGM in an $8.45 billion deal. Amazon said that the storied film and television studio, with nearly a century of filmmaking history, will complement its own Amazon Studios unit, which is focused on producing TV show programming. Amazon said it will help preserve MGM’s heritage
May 20, 2021 by Chain Drug Review
Amazon, Beth Galetti, mental health benefit, Resources For Living program
Leading Headlines, Pharmacy, Retail News
SEATTLE — Amazon launched on Thursday a new mental health benefit, Resources for Living, that provides every U.S. employee, their family, and their household with a single place to start for personalized, convenient, and confidential support for mental health and daily life assistance. These services are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week,
March 8, 2021 by Jeffrey Woldt
Amazon, Tom Furphy Replenium
Featured Articles, Leading Headlines, Videos
In this week’s Video Forum, Tom Furphy, a former Amazon executive who played a pivotal role in launching the company’s H&BA and grocery businesses, talks about recent developments at Amazon and the competitive edge it has with Subscribe & Save. Now chief executive officer of Replenium and managing director and CEO of Consumer Equity
February 2, 2021 by Chain Drug Review
Amazon, Jeff Bezos
Business, Leading Headlines, Retail News
SEATTLE— Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will step down from his role as chief executive later this year and transition to the role of executive chair, the company reported Tuesday. He will be replaced by Andy Jassy, who currently heads the company’s cloud business, Amazon Web Services. Bezos has been Amazon’s CEO since its founding in
December 17, 2020 by Chain Drug Review
Amazon
Leading Headlines, Retail News
SEATTLE — Amazon is giving shoppers more options for returning holiday purchases this year, including at physical stores, the company said Thursday. Most items shipped between October 1 and December 31 can be returned until January 31, the company said. Amazon is also allowing customers to return products — without boxes or labels — at
December 8, 2020 by Chain Drug Review
Amazon, Salsify, The Digital Shelf
December 7, 2020, Supplier News, Technology
BOSTON — E-commerce was the top retail growth driver in the U.S. even before COVID-19. And with this year’s digital acceleration, winning in retail long term now requires that brand manufacturers win online first. And, of course, no discussion of e-commerce is complete without reference to the proverbial 800-pound gorilla in the room: Amazon. The
December 7, 2020 by James Thomson
Amazon, Buy Box Experts, James Thompson
December 7, 2020, Opinion
But the news is not all good for online channels, including Amazon. That sales increase cannot be supported with adequate last-mile delivery if demand is concentrated around the traditional five days of Black Friday, and the first couple weeks of December. . December is already extremely busy for Amazon, but by starting sales earlier in
December 7, 2020 by Paul Palmieri
Amazon, Paul Palmieri, Tradeswell
December 7, 2020, Opinion
Amazon bested even its own records on Prime Day this year, as sales hit $10.4 billion, a 45% increase over 2019 and nearly three times the sales of the year previous. While there were many wins from brands both big and small, the statistic that you won’t read about in any press release is the
December 7, 2020 by Wendy Liebmann
Amazon, Wendy Liebmann is chief executive officer and chief shopper at WSL Strategic Retail
December 7, 2020, Opinion
Today, Amazon’s success goes far beyond how it has transformed the way we think about and embrace digital shopping. It’s too obvious to talk about how Amazon’s approach to search, click and buy has transformed our definition of convenience and service. Twenty years after it launched as a place to buy secondhand school texts, it