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Amazon, Shopify Open Amazon Logistics Resources to Sellers

Amazon .com Inc. and Shopify Inc. have struck a deal to allow merchants who pay for Shopify鈥檚 e-commerce tools to use Amazon鈥檚 logistics network.

August 31, 2023
BusinessTechnologyLogisticsPrivate

Amazon Prime Day Drives All Online Sales Up 6.1%

U.S. shoppers spent $12.7 billion online during Amazon.com Inc.鈥檚 48-hour Prime Day, up 6.1% from a year ago but short of estimates for 9.5% growth, according to Adobe Inc.

July 13, 2023
BusinessPrivate

Amazon Prime Day Pushes Online Sales Up 6% in First 24 Hours

U.S. consumers spent $6.4 billion online in the first 24 hours of Amazon's Prime Day, according to Adobe Inc., up 6% from a year ago but short of estimates for even stronger growth.

July 12, 2023
BusinessTechnologyLogisticsPrivate

Amazon Prime Day Invite-Only Deal Targets Buyer Frustration

Amazon.com Inc is alleviating some past Prime Day frustrations by dangling an 鈥渋nvite-only鈥 promotion designed to give customers a better shot at snagging the bargains they want.

July 11, 2023
BusinessLogisticsTop 100

Kentucky Lands Kroger E-Commerce Center

Northern Kentucky is getting a new $550,000 distribution center from a unit of The Kroger Co. to give the grocery store giant a larger e-commerce foothold in the state and Ohio.

June 1, 2023
BusinessTechnologyLogistics

Walmart鈥檚 Job Cut Tally Tops 2,000 in E-Commerce

Walmart Inc.鈥檚 job cuts at five U.S. e-commerce fulfillment centers will affect more than 2,000 positions, according to regulatory filings.

April 4, 2023
BusinessEquipment

FinditParts Raises $30 Million to Expand Digital Content

FinditParts has raised a $30 million minority equity investment from Crestline Investors Inc., the e-commerce marketplace announced.

June 7, 2022
BusinessTechnologyLogistics

Shopify Profit Is More Than Double Forecast, Extending Streak

Shopify Inc. beat expectations in the second quarter, with adjusted profit per share more than double what analysts had forecast, and said operating earnings for 2021 should exceed last year鈥檚.

July 28, 2021
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Startup Couriers Snatch Toehold in Biggest Shake-Up of E-Commerce Era

Surging e-commerce is generating more package deliveries than giant couriers can handle, clogging retailers鈥 logistical pipelines and frustrating consumers. But the logjam is spawning startups with new ways of speeding deliveries.

July 21, 2021
GovernmentBusinessLogisticsTCA

Pennsylvania Ponders Package Fee to Pay for Roads, Bridges

What if the solution to Pennsylvania鈥檚 transportation funding quagmire was all the brown boxes and padded envelopes left at people鈥檚 front doors?

July 13, 2021