Amazon Warns of Delivery Delays as Coronavirus Elevates Demand
Online retail giant Amazon.com Inc. is warning its customers may see some delivery delays, and some items could be out of stock as the impact from the coronavirus spreads across the country. The company says the increase in people buying things online is having an effect on how it serves its customers.
Walmart Developing a Membership Program to Rival Amazon Prime
Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, is developing a paid membership program to challenge internet giant Amazon Prime's offering. It will be called Walmart+.
Amazon Merchants Spooked by Coronavirus Fallout Curtail Ad Spending
Amazon merchants are shifting sales tactics in the face of shortages caused by effects of the coronavirus.
Amazon Opens Cashier-Less Grocery Store in Seattle
Amazon is opening its first cashier-less supermarket, the latest sign that the online retailing giant is serious about shaking up the $800 billion grocery industry.
Walmart Loses Another Home-Delivery Provider Amid Amazon Clash
Walmart Inc. is parting ways with grocery-delivery partner Skipcart, the latest defection from its network of logistics companies that often struggle to make ends meet schlepping cola and cantaloupes for the nation’s biggest food retailer.
Amazon Cuts Ties With Couriers, Costing Jobs
Amazon .com Inc. is severing ties with small delivery firms around the country — putting at least 1,300 drivers out of work — in an effort to eliminate partners that aren’t meeting its standards.
Amazon Pays $50 Million for Former Old Chicago Amusement Park, Mall
Online retail giant Amazon .com Inc. has paid more than $50 million for the former site of Old Chicago, an indoor amusement park and mall in Bolingbrook that predated massive experiential shopping centers like Minnesota’s Mall of America.
Amazon Finally Closes Above $1 Trillion After Months of Close Calls
Amazon .com Inc. closed with a valuation above $1 trillion for the first time Feb. 4, after failing to hold above that threshold through the end of a trading day in the previous two sessions.
Amazon Leases Large New Warehouse Near Dallas
Amazon .com Inc. is expanding its North Texas distribution footprint again with another big warehouse lease.
Amazon Offers New Jobs to Employees in Pinnacle's 1,600-Person Layoff
An aviation and trucking company that operates out of BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport will lay off more than 1,600 people this spring, and Amazon has offered all hourly employees jobs at the same location.