Welcome to RepricerExpress’ weekly round-up of the top five stories from the world of Amazon and ecommerce.
Walmart goes big into online grocery delivery, challenging Amazon: Ben Fox Rubin at CNET reports that Walmart is making a major push into online grocery delivery. After testing out grocery delivery over the past two years in six US markets, Walmart has said it will bring the service to more than 100 metro areas in the US over the coming months. “We’re going to try and accelerate this program as fast as we can”, said Tom Ward, Walmart US vice president of digital operations. Continue reading…
Amazon’s internal numbers on Prime Video revealed: CNBC reports Amazon’s top television shows drew more than 5 million people worldwide to its Prime shopping club by early 2017, according to company documents. The documents also show that Amazon’s US audience for all video programming on Prime, including films and TV shows it licenses from other companies, was about 26 million customers. Amazon has never released figures for its total audience. Continue reading…
Amazon recalls fire-risk power packs in UK, Europe and US: BBC News reports that owners of Amazon’s own-brand power bank chargers have been contacted by the firm telling them to stop using them. A recall covering six models of the AmazonBasics-branded product was announced in the US and Canada on Tuesday. Continue reading…
A decade of Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA): Joe at Marketplace Pulse reports that twelve years ago on September 19th, 2006 Amazon announced the Fulfillment by Amazon service. Fulfillment by Amazon, or FBA for short, is a service allowing sellers to offload most of their warehouse operations to Amazon for an extra fee. Inventory is stored in one of the Amazon warehouses allowing customer orders to be fulfilled guaranteeing the two-day Prime shipping. Continue reading…
Jeremy Clarkson denies Amazon show The Grand Tour to be axed after three series: Benjamin Butterworth at iNews reports that Jeremy Clarkson has refuted speculation his Amazon show The Grand Tour is to be axed after three years. The Mail on Sunday claimed the successor to Top Gear will wrap up at the end of its third series, which is due to air later in 2018. The show has been one of Amazon’s biggest money makers – bringing in a reported £100m since it began in 2015. Continue reading…
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