Joseph Pisani
Retail Sales Rose 1.9% in September, the Fifth Consecutive Month of Growth
Sales associates greet a customer at a store in San Francisco. (Michael Short /Bloomberg)
NEW YORK — Retail sales in the U.S. rose 1.9% in September, the 5th consecutive month of growth.
October 16, 2020Retail Sales Rise for 4th Straight Month as Growth Slows
Signage is displayed outside a Century 21 department store in New York on Sept. 14. The company filed for bankruptcy with plans to shut down. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg News)
Americans kept spending in August, but the pace of that growth is slowing as millions of people who lost jobs have now lost a $600-a-week boost in their unemployment checks.
September 16, 2020Amazon’s Carbon Footprint Grows 15% Despite Green Pledges
A newly constructed Amazon fulfillment facility is seen in Dallas on May 20. (Tony Gutierrez/Associated Press)
Amazon said June 23 that its carbon footprint rose 15% last year, even as it launched initiatives to reduce its harm on the environment.
June 23, 2020Amazon Profit Falls as Pandemic-Related Costs Rise
A person wearing a mask jogs past an Amazon Go store April 30 in downtown Seattle. (Ted S. Warren/AP)
NEW YORK — Amazon’s sales soared in the first three months of the year, as more homebound people shopped online amid the coronavirus pandemic.
May 1, 2020Amazon Opens Cashier-Less Grocery Store in Seattle
A sign tells shoppers how to check in when they enter an Amazon Go Grocery store in Seattle. (Ted S. Warren/AP)
Amazon is opening its first cashier-less supermarket, the latest sign that the online retailing giant is serious about shaking up the $800 billion grocery industry.
February 25, 2020Where’s My Amazon Package? It May Be Late
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NEW YORK — It’s just a week into the holiday shopping season, and Amazon already is having trouble getting packages to shoppers’ doorsteps on time.
December 6, 2019Amazon Looks to Hire 30,000
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Amazon is going on a hiring spree. The online shopping giant is holding job fairs across the country next week, aiming to hire more than 30,000 people by early next year, a 5% bump in its total workforce.
September 10, 2019Scout, Amazon’s Self-Driving Delivery Robot, Heads to California
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Amazon said Aug. 6 that its six-wheeled self-driving robots, about the size of a smaller cooler, will begin delivering packages to customers in Irvine, Calif., after testing them in a suburb of Seattle earlier this year.
August 6, 2019Amazon Says It Will Back Its Employees Who Quit Jobs to Start Delivery Businesses
The endless line of Amazon packages getting sorted and moved along a conveyor belt. (Patrick Semansky/Associated Press)
NEW YORK — Amazon, which is racing to deliver packages faster, is turning to its own employees with a proposition: Quit your job, and we’ll help you start a business delivering Amazon packages.
May 14, 2019