Amazon Prime

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.