Tag: Amazon

April 13, 2021

Ecommerce has a much smaller impact on the environment compared to physical retail stores, resulting in between 1.5 and 2.9 times lower greenhouse gas emissions. According to a new independent report commissioned by Amazon and published by Oliver Wyman and […]

March 31, 2021

President Biden has announced plans to place tariffs on select UK goods travelling across the Atlantic in retaliation to the UK’s Digital Services Tax (DST). The new tariffs would mean that the US would raise $325 million (£235.8 million) on […]

March 30, 2021

The Ever Given’s blockage of the Suez Canal is set to cost traders a total of £4.35 billion as experts warn ecommerce retailers will feel the effects for months to come. The 400-metre-long container ship was successfully refloated yesterday after […]

February 23, 2021

Amazon is offering employees thousands of dollars to permanently quit their jobs in a move which could impact its upcoming landmark union vote. Amazon has relaunched its “voluntary resignation programme”, which it has been running annually every February since 2014, […]

February 22, 2021

Retail ecommerce sales grew 27.6% worldwide in 2020 and global marketplaces ruled the roost, making up nine of the top 10 most visited retail sites last year, according to a report from Fasthosts. Amazon and Japan’s Rakuten were the #1 […]

February 17, 2021

Amazon is being sued by New York’s attorney general who argued its extreme profit margins “came at the expense of the lives, health and safety of its frontline workers”. Letitia James officially filed a complaint at the New York Supreme […]

February 11, 2021

Amazon’s investors have demanded that the retailer stop interfering with its employees’ efforts to unionise. A group of more than 70 investors, which collectively hold around $20 billion in Amazon shares, have penned a letter calling for Amazon to end […]

February 5, 2021

Ever since Amazon’s earnings call this past Tuesday, the business world has been abuzz with one Amazon story and one story alone: Jeff Bezos is stepping aside as CEO and transitioning to the new role of Executive Chair. That bombshell […]

February 4, 2021

So you want to launch an online retail business. Cool! Let’s get started. First you’ll need a website and inventory to make an online store. Now you need customers. They’re out there, surely, somewhere on the internet. To find them, […]

February 4, 2021

Kohl’s CEO Michelle Gass said the retailer got a boost at the end of the holiday quarter thanks, in part, to the influx of shoppers coming to its stores to make Amazon returns. The department store chain on Thursday said […]