After rolling out its cashierless tech at airport Hudson News locations, Starbucks and fashion outlets, Amazon’s latest move is to integrate it at Whole Foods. We examine in light of Amazon’s larger RaaS play.
After piloting Just Walk Out at Amazon Go, airport-based convenience chains, salons, grocery and even Starbucks, Amazon has now tipped its hand for the next move: clothing stores. We examine the strategic implications.
After piloting its “Just Walk Out” retail tech at Amazon Go and a handful of airport-based convenience chains, Amazon is breaking out the big guns: Starbucks. We examine its latest move.
One of our ongoing areas of coverage and analysis is retail-as-a-service (RaaS). And one of the biggest players tackling this sector is the mighty Amazon. We examine its latest moves.
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
“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
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
Yesterday, Amazon Home Services – originally launched in November as Amazon Local Services – was made available to much of the country, though the high-coverage
