Amazon.com
August 18, 2025 at 7:19 pm
In episode 488 of Total Retail Talks, Editor-in-Chief Joe Keenan interviews Kebharu Smith, director and associate general counsel of Amazon.com's Counterfeit Crimes Unit (CCU), a global team working to investigate, find and launch legal action and criminal referrals against counterfeiters. Listen in as Smith provides an overview of the CCU's work to prevent counterfeit product…
July 15, 2025 at 4:16 pm
Amazon stretched out its annual Prime Day sales event so that it lasted four days – twice as long as in the past – and, as a result, blew away previous sales figures, reports USA Today. The online retailing powerhouse and tech giant said Prime Day 2025, which ran from July 8-11, was its biggest…
June 25, 2025 at 2:08 pm
Making good on its promise to spend $4 billion by the end of 2026 to triple the size of its rural delivery network, Amazon.com announced Tuesday it would soon be providing same- and next-day delivery to 4,000 smaller cities, towns and rural communities across the country. The company said in a press release the extra…
June 17, 2025 at 5:03 pm
Amazon.com is extending its Prime Day discount bonanza, announcing that the annual sale will run four days this year, reports CNBC. The 96-hour event will start at 12:01 a.m. PT on July 8, and continue through July 11, Amazon said in a press release. For the first time, the company will roll out themed “deal…
January 28, 2025 at 5:06 pm
Amazon.com has tapped Whole Foods CEO Jason Buechel to oversee its sprawling grocery business, the company announced Monday. Buechel became CEO of Whole Foods in 2022 after co-founder John Mackey retired from the company. In his expanded role leading Amazon’s grocery business, Buechel will succeed Tony Hoggett, who left Amazon last October to join Wonder,…
July 15, 2024 at 5:38 pm
Amazon Prime Day, which has become an industry-wide moment as consumers embrace deals across retailers, will drive $14 billion online — a 10.5 percent increase year-over-year — for U.S. retailers, according to data recently published by Adobe Analytics. The event, taking place July 16-17, will also bring steeper discounts, a rise in back-to-school shopping, and…
April 4, 2024 at 12:44 pm
Amazon.com is removing “Just Walk Out” technology from its Amazon Fresh stores as part of an effort to revamp the grocery chain. The company’s well-known technology lets customers pay for items without standing in line and sends them receipts afterwards. Amazon says Just Walk Out will now be replaced by smart carts that allow customers…
April 2, 2024 at 7:35 pm
Every year, the U.S. goes through enough cardboard boxes for shipping to pave a one-mile-wide road from New York City to Los Angeles three times, or build a mile-high cardboard wall around the entire continental U.S. Getting rid of overreliance on Amazon.com's signature brown box is a key goal of the retail giant and its…
February 26, 2024 at 11:26 pm
Amazon.com U.S. retail sales will total $641.3 billion in 2024, an increase of 19.9 percent or $106.6 billion from 2023, according to a new report from digital retail consultancy Momentum Commerce that tracks Amazon's U.S. retail sales as well as hundreds of Amazon product categories. According to the report, the following top-level, physical goods categories…
October 12, 2023 at 4:44 pm
This week saw Amazon.com host its second Prime Day sale of 2023. The two-day sale event, which is exclusively for Prime members, is viewed by many as the unofficial start to the holiday shopping season. How did this most recent sale event compare to its predecessor in July, as well as year-over-year? Numerator, the consumer…
