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Affrirm Knots BNPL Deal with Amazon
Affirm and Amazon just tossed a grenade into the crowd of competitors in the white-hot buy now, pay later space. The U.S. BNPL platform has
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The Amazon-Seller Roll-Up Race Rolls On
One trend we’ve been tracking is what we call the “great eCommerce rollup.” This reflects the emerging business model to buy up third-party Amazon marketplace sellers — otherwise know as FBA’s (or fulfilled by Amazon). We examine the latest.
Advertising
Amazon’s Ad Share Continues to Ratchet Up
One of the ongoing tech stories of the past few years is how Amazon continues to nip at the heels of the “duopoly.” And its working, considering Amazon’s latest ad market share and revenue growth figures. We examine.
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Amazon’s Next Trojan Horse, Part II: Touchless Payments
Following Part I of this series, we move on to Amazon One, the company’s palm-reading technology to streamline the retail POS. Beyond its surface-level dynamics, how does this play into Amazon’s broader retail tech play?
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Amazon Passes 10% of U.S. Digital Ad Spend
Look out Google and Facebook… Amazon has its eyes on your lunch. Amazon continues to pose a threat as a “duopoly” killer, the latest evidence coming from its 10 percent of U.S. digital ad spend. We examine.
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Amazon: The New King of Apparel Sales
We continue to see signals for e-commerce’s rise. The latest milestone is that Amazon has unseated Walmart as the leading U.S. retailer for apparel sales. This has key implications for large and small businesses.
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Amazon Extends Its Long-Tail Reach
Amazon rarely does anything quietly, even when it wants to. But it managed to do so with last month’s under-the-radar acquisition of SMB eCommerce enabler Selz. We examine.
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Amazon Amplifies Virtual ‘Try-Before-You-Buy’ Shopping
This is the latest in Localogy’s Skate To Where the Puck is Going series. Running semi-weekly, it examines the moves and motivations of tech giants as leading
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Whole Foods Reportedly Will Deploy Amazon Go’s ‘Just Walk Out’ Tech
In a move Localogy analysts anticipated, Whole Foods will reportedly add Amazon’s “just walk out” checkout technology to its stores beginning next year. Amazon made
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DoorDash Shadows Instacart, Amazon
Last week DoorDash sealed a deal with Walgreens to offer “on-demand delivery of thousands of Walgreens items on DoorDash,” according to a DoorDash blog post.
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Amazon Expands Reach in India’s SMB Greenfield
This is the latest in Localogy’s Skate To Where the Puck is Going series. Running semi-weekly, it examines the moves and motivations of tech giants as leading
Acquisitions
Shopify Adds to Its Anti-Amazon Arsenal
Shopify just plopped down $450 million to raise its logistics game as part of its push to not just be an Amazon alternative, but to
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Amazon Using Discounts to Drive Pay Adoption
“Your margin is my opportunity” is one of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s most famous quotes. The retail payments sector is feeling the sting of this
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Survey: 72% of SMB Amazon Prime Members Use it for Business
Digital technology and “the cloud” are transforming the way small businesses (SMBs) manage their operations. As one example, Amazon has started to disrupt the supply
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Amazon Turns Services into Commodities
Yesterday, Amazon Home Services – originally launched in November as Amazon Local Services – was made available to much of the country, though the high-coverage