Marketplace giant Amazon has revealed it will be opening its first physical fashion store, Amazon Style, complete with a number of technology-led in-store shopping experiences. The store will feature both known brands and emerging designers, with clothing, shoes and accessories for men and women. Designed to be digital-first, customers will be...
21 Jan 2022
Fashion brands and retailers selling on Amazon will be pleased the online giant has scrapped plans to ban Visa cards from its UK payment options. In an ongoing dispute between the credit card company and retailer, Visa was to be frozen out until an agreement was reached. “The expected change regarding the use of Visa credit cards on Amazon.co.uk...
17 Jan 2022
Reuters has reported Amazon Inc. has filed a new legal challenge in its continued dispute with Indian retailer Future Group. The national antitrust agency recently suspended a 2019 deal between the two companies, halting their arbitration. Last month, the Competition Commission of India suspended Amazon’s 2019 deal with Future, preventing Amazon...
10 Jan 2022
A new report by Research and Markets has found that more than half of the global retail growth is projected to come from online sales between 2020 and 2025, as the global fashion market continues to shift towards the digital as covid-19 persists. The platform’s annual Global Clothing B2C E-Commerce Market report further added that around 10...
3 Jan 2022
Amazon has announced plans to create more than 2000 corporate and tech jobs in Austin, Texas, over the next few years, further expanding the company’s Austin Tech Hub. These new roles will support teams growing in Operations Technology, Amazon Retail, Amazon Business, and Amazon Web Services, and include positions such as senior data engineers,...
24 Dec 2021
Amazon has partnered with Barclays in order to allow its customers to pay in instalments in the UK. Amazon customers in the UK will be able to apply for reusable credit at Barclays that lets them spread the cost of their Amazon purchases into monthly instalments. The purchases must be over 100 pounds. The monthly instalments will also be...
20 Dec 2021
A report by ocean conservation group Oceana has found that up to 23.5 million pounds of Amazon’s plastic packaging polluted the world’s waterways and oceans in 2020. The organisation has called on the e-commerce platform to reduce the use of plastic packaging worldwide, a move it already committed to in Germany and India. Oceana’s report further...
The UK’s advertising market is set to grow 24 percent this year, compared to 19 percent global growth. The increase is due to digital media, with all forms of pure-play digital media expected to surge worldwide. Figures from Group M’s annual This Year Next Year report also highlight that Amazon, Google and Facebook control over 50 percent of the...
As it leaves its European rivals eating dust, Amazon has found a hiccough in Italy: the country’s competitions watchdog has slapped the American retail giant with a 1.13b billion euro (965m pounds) fine for harming rival e-commerce logistics services and promoting its own. The regulator said Amazon negatively impacted rivals by only giving...
12 Dec 2021
Reuters has reported that Amazon has plans to open a fulfillment center in Abu Dhabi for 2024. Amazon has entered a partnership with Abu Dhabi Investment Office to establish the fulfillment center, which will be built in accordance with the company’s carbon reduction strategies. The new fulfillment center is expected to create thousands of jobs...
29 Nov 2021
Swiss luxury group Richemont has announced it is moving its entire enterprise IT infrastructure to Amazon Web Services (AWS). The transfer will result in the closing of its European data centres and the migration of its additional stations in Hong Kong and the US to AWS by the end of 2022. Richemont, the parent company of Cartier, Montblanc and...
23 Nov 2021
Amazon is unveiling more Black Friday deals than ever before for its 48-Hour Black Friday Event, from November 25 through November 26. Customers will be able to shop incredible deals with deep discounts on top products and must-have items. New gadgets and electronics from Samsung, kid-favorite toys and baby essentials from Mattel and Cybex gb...
15 Nov 2021
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