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Amazon breaks Prime Day records despite site crashes

July 17, 2018

Via: Retail Dive

Prime Day, aside from being a lucrative sales day for Amazon, gives the e-commerce giant a chance to wrestle with system weaknesses ahead of the big dance: the holidays. This year Amazon’s desktop and mobile websites both experienced major glitches […]


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BJ’s Wholesale Club readies to go public with IPO filing

May 18, 2018

Via: Retail Dive

Leonard Green and CVC Capital acquired BJ’s Wholesale Club in 2011, took it private and have paid investors dividends several times since. As a practical matter, unloading BJ’s one way or another makes sense for them — most often private […]


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Amazon’s R&D spend rose 41% to $22.6B in 2017

April 10, 2018

Via: Retail Dive

Research and development spending by tech companies isn’t much of a head-turner, but Amazon’s supremacy underscores how the e-commerce giant is at least as much of a tech company as it is a retailer. The company has rivals scrambling to […]