August 21, 2020 by Chain Drug Review
Amazon, Jeff Bezos, Jeff Wilke
Business, Leading Headlines, Retail News
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
July 18, 2018 by Chain Drug Review
Amazon Prime Day, Jeff Wilke
Business, Leading Headlines
SEATTLE — On a day (and a half) with more than one million deals worldwide offered exclusively to Prime members, sales this Prime Day surpassed Cyber Monday, Black Friday and the previous Prime Day, when comparing 36-hour periods, making this once again the biggest shopping event in Amazon history. Prime members worldwide purchased more than 100 million products during this
July 4, 2018 by Chain Drug Review
Amazon, Jeff Wilke, Prime Day
Business, Leading Headlines, Retail News
SEATTLE – Amazon’s highly anticipated annual shopping event, Prime Day will start on July 16 at 12 pm PST and will run through July 17. Bigger than ever, Prime Day (and a half) will extend from 30 hours in 2017 to 36 hours, with more than one million deals exclusively for Prime members around the world, plus select deals
June 28, 2018 by Chain Drug Review
Amazon, Jeff Wilke, Mercatus, PillPack, Sylvain Perrier, T.J. Parker
Business, Featured Articles, Leading Headlines, Pharmacy, Retail News
SEATTLE and BOSTON — Amazon and PillPack today announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Amazon will acquire PillPack. PillPack is a pharmacy said to be designed to provide the best possible customer experience in the U.S. for people who take multiple daily prescriptions. PillPack delivers medications in pre-sorted dose packaging, coordinates refills and renewals, and makes sure shipments are sent on
August 24, 2017 by Chain Drug Review
Amazon, Amazon Prime, Amazon Worldwide Consumer, Amazon-Whole Foods deal, AmazonFresh, Jeff Wilke, John Mackey, Whole Foods Market
Business, Retail News
SEATTLE — Amazon announced on Thursday that its $13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods Market Inc. will close on Aug. 28. Amazon also revealed details about how it intends to lower prices and integrate its Prime membership program into the Whole Foods checkout process. The company’s bid for Whole Foods was approved Aug. 23 by