The tech world has passed a big milestone, which came and went with relatively little fanfare. After years of gaining ground on Walmart as the world’s largest retailer by revenue, Amazon surpassed it. In its Q4 earnings, it reported full-year 2025 revenue of $717 billion, passing Walmarts $681 billion.
Amazon recently showed its hand with respect to local commerce. It will launch apps within Alexa+ for local commerce staples, such as Angi, Square, Yelp, OpenTable, and Thumbtack.
Following yesterday’s coverage of OpenAI’s move into local grocery delivery, a different player is making high-stakes moves in the category. Amazon has announced that its Same-Day Delivery services will add fresh groceries in 2,300 cities and towns throughout the U.S., and more to come in 2026.
Amazon’s new delivery promise is 30-minute-or-less program for certain items and locales. This is just the latest in a long line of attempts to shave seconds off the clock in local deliveries.
From the underplayed-news desk, Amazon last week formed a new partnership with Ford to sell cars online. It will expose local car dealer inventory, letting
Amazon this week launched a new shopping-oriented visual search feature. Known as Lens Live, it builds on Amazon’s existing Lens tool, and adds a real-time component. Users can point their phone cameras at various items or scenes to unlock shoppable product information about physical items.
Amazon Prime Day – which is really four days – reached record sales this year. Stretching from July 8th to 11th, U.S. retailers saw $24.1 billion in online spending, which is 30.3 percent year-over-year growth. It’s also the equivalent of two Black Fridays given 2024 online Black Friday sales of $10.8 billion.
oogle’s drone delivery division, Wing, just pushed things forward in localized aerial eCommerce delivery, in partnership with Walmart. This follows similar moves and geographic expansions from Amazon, signaling an ongoing land grab – or airspace grab – in last-mile delivery to local markets.
People often think of Amazon’s growth in advertising in a search or display sense on Amazon.com. But what about its endeavors into streaming? We heard
Companies from Adobe to Google are starting to peel away AI features from a core product to instead live within discreet – and often paid – apps. Will that work? The question boils down to whether or not consumers are ready to pay for AI en masse.
Word came this week that Amazon is shelving its Inspire Feed. The feature – itself inspired by TikTok’s shoppability – launched in 2022 to blend Amazon-style shopping with social commerce vibes. The thought was to marry product discovery with transaction-enabled shopping – a compressed funnel.
Amazon has found its latest conquest: selling cars. This follows its entries into massive new markets such as healthcare, advertising, and cloud computing.
Amazon has reached the latest milestone in the elusive dream for last-mile logistics: ubiquitous drone delivery. After recently concluded its delivery trials in California, it’s now moving on to the next test market: Phoenix.
The past week in Local news was highlighted with Microsoft and Criteo transforming retail media, Tiger Pistol and AdBud, the potential effects of TikTok Shop,
This week saw “Black Friday in July.” That’s right, it was Prime Day… which is actually two days. The Amazon-invented holiday broke records this year and we have all the data and takeaways.
In Episode 84 of Localogy’s This Week in Local podcast, my co-host Mike Boland and I use the example of AI startup Ario to discuss
In Episode 83 of Localogy’s This Week in Local podcast, my co-host Mike Boland and I discuss the rapid evolution of retail media from the
We’ve recently covered Meta’s challenges with European regulators. According to a recent story in Reuters, Meta isn’t the only big tech big dog to find itself
The past week in Local news was highlighted with the news of Google local search enhancements, the new SOCi Chat, Walmart’s immersive shopping play and
The past week in Local news was highlighted with the news of Tiger Pistol partnering with Amazon, big tech’s ad revenue dominance surging, Meta halting
