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Amazon Air is closing a Texas cargo-handling facility, which will result in the layoff of 65 workers.

Amazon may face an Federal Trade Commission antitrust lawsuit in the coming months, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

For just $5 per month, Prime members can choose from 52 eligible medications and have them delivered to their doorstep, free of charge.

Starting Jan. 31, more U.S. merchants, including those on the BigCommerce platform, can access Amazon Prime services like free and next-day delivery.

One market-breaking sale will no longer cut it. Amazon is introducing a second Prime Day-like sales event.

The e-commerce giant is rolling out a store-to-door delivery service that was first reported in May.

Prime Day 2022 begins Tuesday, but with slowing e-commerce growth, success might look different for Amazon this year.

Amazon took a stake in struggling food delivery platform Grubhub that could be worth up to 13% if it attracts enough customers.

Prime Day 2022 will run July 12-13

With Amazon Prime Day less than a month away, here are the details you need to know.

Two lawsuits filed by Amazon customers in late May and early June allege that Prime isn’t what was promised.

You’ve heard of cash back for groceries or restaurants, but what about cash back for freight?

The company may use the program as a steppingstone to deliveries outside its platform.

With the launch of its Buy with Prime service, Amazon is going head-to-head with Shopify, UPS and FedEx.

While Amazon is the 800-pound retail gorilla, most retailers are focused on more immediate concerns, such as meeting fulfillment and delivery demands.

‘When shoppers form an addiction to Amazon, it affects their lives in surprising ways,’ says supply chain data company TransImpact

Fabric and its microfulfillment networks are already valued at $1 billion despite operating in just three cities.

Company shoots out the lights in the third quarter with soaring profits and EPS.

Company takes no chances in keeping supply chain problems away from holiday deliveries.

The food and drug retailer is taking a page from Amazon’s playbook.

Amazon confirmed its annual Prime Day event will be held in Q2 (likely June), as it seeks to improve on a record Q2 2020, when revenue grew 40%. But there’s also major supply chain reasoning behind the decision.

Shipping costs rise 57% to $17.1 billion.

Amazon has started requiring third-party sellers to meet more stringent Prime shipping promises, and that is forcing changes to the supply chain.

Amazon.com Inc. bought Whole Foods Market Inc. on Aug. 28, 2017, for $13.7 billion, following up with changes to the grocery brand.

Amazon CEO steps away after going where no retailer had gone before.

The Seattle-based e-tailer currently operates 10 sites in Detroit that support customer fulfillment and delivery operations.

Pricing and delivery bundle will be tough for traditional pharmacies to match, consultant says.

“Key by Amazon” is now available in 4,000 U.S. cities; the company has added in-garage grocery deliveries.

Amazon has ambitions to expand its air network internationally, and now has its own airport sort center in Europe.

Olsavsky says transport spending is in a multiyear ramp-up as the company posts solid third-quarter results.

Amazon Prime Day sales totaled an estimated $7.16 billion in 2019.

About 450 to open by year-end, consultancy says.

Amazon is pushing the envelope on fast delivery, increasingly replacing long-haul trucking with air transport. A new report shows how the retail giant is expanding its Air wing to do that.

Amazon denies allegations of trademark infringement.

Walmart+ to offer free same-day deliveries on 160,000 items at $98 annual subscription.

Amazon received FAA approval to fly commercial delivery drones as part of its Amazon Prime Air program.

Dave Clark, who effectively invented the modern-day Amazon shipping network, is promoted.

Amazon ratchets up service requirements on SFP merchants.

Amazon Air is expanding in Hawaii to keep up with Amazon’s fulfillment center push.

Amazon cargo planes will make daily deliveries to and from the company’s newest airport in Lakeland, Florida.

Soon-to-launch Walmart+ service could be a win for the retail giant even if it poses no serious threat to Amazon.com.

Amazon uses a lot of energy and emits a lot of pollution, but it is taking aggressive steps to be eco-friendly. Case in point: Amazon Air buying biofuel for its aircraft.

Amazon Air has gone from start-up to mid-size cargo airline in four years. By mid-decade, it is expected to be in air cargo’s major leagues.

Amazon will occupy a huge air cargo facility being built at San Bernardino Airport as it expands its private airline and air delivery network.

“Everybody in the last-mile delivery business better watch out, because Amazon can make them unnecessary.”

But many sellers still in the lurch as the e-giant limits shipments to essential products

Competition is fierce in the e-commerce wars and efficiency is critical to customer service and profitability. DHL’s investment in new Boeing freighters is designed to keep growing that business line.

The “Amazon Effect” continues, moving in multiple directions at the same time. Here are six ways Amazon’s fast delivery is changing shipping.

Delivery companies that don’t meet Amazon’s standards are being cut from its vendor list. Three got dismissed this week.

Bear Down Logistics didn’t meet Amazon’s standards so Amazon cut ties.

Like most mega-companies, UPS Inc. (NYSE:UPS) is loath to publicly discuss customers or its relationships with them. It refuses to answer reporters’ questions about customers. It never mentions them in press releases or other media announcements. But the long-held custom went out the window last week. In announcing its fourth-quarter and full-year results, UPS not […]

Amazon blows past analysts’ EPS estimates for q4

Truck owner claims his employer and Amazon worked him “like a rented mule.”

XPO has made spin-offs the new buzzword in logistics for 2020.

Amazon lifts ban on third-party sellers’ use of FedEx Ground and Home Delivery

Brian Aoaeh writes about the “other” side of ecommerce – the returns of unwanted merchandise and how retailers are handling the issue.

Overseas shipping – particularly during the holidays – can be difficult. Here are some tips for making the process easier and more successful.

US retailers will forgo profits for the sake of making the logistics investments needed to manage the e-commerce surge, ABI Research says

Amazon hires passenger carrier to operate freighters.

Amazon to block customers of its Seller-Fulfilled Prime service from using FedEx units for deliveries

Charley Dehoney writes about Amazon’s impact on software programming, and how it is using lessons from Amazon Web Services to logistics and its other business lines.

Tech-enabled last mile is still in early innings, and there are a number of competing strategies.

This shift in Amazon’s logistics should make brick and mortar competitors like Walgreens, CVS, Walmart and Target nervous.

Company insists contractors are held to “high standards.”

Salesforce drew on three years of data from 4,500 e-commerce sites to generate its forecast.

Arbritrator’s award denies Atlas Air’s pilots’ request to negotiate a contract and instead imposes an arbitrated settlement on both sides

ATSG and Atlas Air continue to fight a contract battle with their pilots union as Amazon, which uses both airlines, watches closely with peak season approaching

Global e-commerce continues to grow, and grow, and grow. Market voice Brian Aoaeh writes about the move of e-commerce giants to establish their own fulfillment services.

Amazon.com wants all SMB business, and will not be shy in squeezing the SMBs to get it

Amazon’s q2 shipping costs soar as costs of one-day delivery launch exceed estimates

Ecommerce continues to grow and Amazon and its competitors continue to innovate and grow. Read insight into the phenomenon by Anothy Smith.

Amazon workers strike on the company’s mega-discount Prime Day, asking for fair treatment, higher pay and decent working conditions within warehouses.

The good news is that Amazon will see massive volume surges on Prime Day. Now it has to deliver all of them in one day.

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Reefer specialist claims use of the word “prime” constitutes unfair competition.

In March and April, Amazon handled 45 percent of its own packages.

The FreightWaves Intel Group surveyed over 800 carriers, shippers and brokers about the entry of Amazon into online freight brokerage. Read about the survey’s results and what respondents think Amazon will do to their businesses.

The FreightWaves Freight Intel Group is producing research culled from FreightWaves SONAR and other sources. Read about its first several research papers and how to learn more.

Amazon to add 15 B737800 freighters through lease with GE’s Aircraft leasing unit

GM looks to expand its in-car delivery program to other carriers and retailers besides its relationship with Amazon

Amazon.com breaks ground on its air hub in Cincinnati suburb of Hebron, Ky

Walmart launches one-day delivery in Phoenix and Las Vegas two weeks after Amazon announces its plans to start the service

Cathy Roberson, an aviation market expert, writes about the effect Amazon is having on U.S. airports.

Apps collaborate to deliver to Ford cars.

Smiley declares war…again.

Amazon.com, Inc.(NASDAQ:AMZN) has launched a program to offer free one-day delivery to users of its popular “Prime” service, cutting its current delivery window in half and throwing down another gauntlet to retailers and logisticians across the country.

Move seen as another effort to position Amazon as competition to incumbents.

Expansion follows launch of similar service for consumers.

Will `Amazon Day’ be the answer to B2C stop density challenges?

Crash scene one of `total devastation,’ witnesses say.

General Motors plans to go all-electric in the future but does not expect profits until early next decade; Amazon is all set to move into the last-mile delivery segment; Tesla and Mercedes-Benz might collaborate over electric van development.

Shipping, orders continue to skyrocket.

Will Amazon take more boxes at the expense of FedEx, UPS, USPS?

Prime offerings gained serious traction over holidays.

Amazon to get warrants that could amount to nearly 40% of ATSG stock

Amazon’s project, expected to be completed in late 2019, is significant in that it will be Amazon’s first regional air facility, and will be the first the company will build from scratch. It may also take on added significance because of the vast logistics ecosystem of which the airport is a part.

The shipping network buildout continues.

Amazon came out on top according to the judges in FreightWaves’ Research Institute’s inaugural Freight.Tech 25, which identified the most disruptive and innovative companies in the freight space.

Amazon is scaling up its asset side on both last mile delivery and linehaul, pursuing a low-cost strategy of leased vehicles, independent contractors, and power-only deals with enterprise carriers.