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Amazon Merchants Say Deliveries of Some Products Are Delayed
Amazon boxes sit stacked at a USPS facility in Fairfax, Va., on May 19. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg News)
Amazon .com Inc. merchants around the U.S. say some products that normally reach customers in one or two days are now taking a week or longer just as the world’s largest online retailer heads into what’s expected to be a record-busting holiday shopping season.
November 25, 2020Amazon Plans to Put 1,000 Warehouses in Suburban Neighborhoods
Packed boxes move along a conveyor belt at an Amazon fulfillment center in Tilbury, U.K. (Jason Alden/Bloomberg News)
The facilities, which will eventually number about 1,500, will bring products closer to customers, making shopping online about as fast as a quick run to the store.
September 16, 2020Amazon Looks to Use More Contractors for Grocery Delivery
A shopping cart filled with Amazon Prime grocery bags sits outside a Whole Foods store in Washington on March 31. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg News)
Amazon .com Inc. is experimenting with a new program that pays independent contractors to fetch groceries from shelves in Whole Foods stores and deliver them in their own vehicles.
September 15, 2020Amazon Plows Through Pandemic With Record Profit
Boxes move along a conveyor belt at an Amazon fulfillment center in New Jersey. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg News)
Amazon .com Inc. justified its big investments to keep operating through the COVID-19 pandemic with sales growth and a record profit that far exceeded analysts’ estimates, showing that staying open when so many businesses were forced to close was a rare opportunity.
July 31, 2020Elon Musk Says Time to Break Up Amazon, Fueling Jeff Bezos Feud
Tesla CEO Elon Musk by Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg News
Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk said it’s “time to break up Amazon” in a tweet June 4, escalating a rivalry with Amazon.com Inc. CEO Jeff Bezos, another billionaire investing in space exploration.
June 5, 2020Amazon Prime Air Could Surge to 200 Jets From 42, Study Says
A Prime Air cargo plane operated by Amazon sits on display in France in June 2019. (Jason Alden/Bloomberg News)
Amazon .com Inc.'s Prime Air fleet will grow to about 200 planes — up from 42 now — in the next seven or eight years, creating an air cargo service that could rival UPS Inc., according to a study.
May 26, 2020Amazon Says Deliveries Returning to Normal After COVID-19 Crush
Sealed boxes move along a conveyor belt into a truck dock at an Amazon fulfillment center in Germany in July 2019. (Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg News)
Amazon .com Inc. says the one- and two-day delivery times that shoppers have come to expect should gradually return in coming weeks as the online retailer catches up from a demand surge tied to the coronavirus outbreak.
May 13, 2020Amazon Merchants Spooked by Coronavirus Fallout Curtail Ad Spending
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Amazon merchants are shifting sales tactics in the face of shortages caused by effects of the coronavirus.
February 26, 2020Dave Clark: The Man Who Built Amazon’s Delivery Machine
Employees fill online orders at the Amazon.com Inc. fulfillment center in Robbinsville, N.J. (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg News)
Amazon's logistics chief, Dave Clark, has transformed the retail giant's operations.
December 17, 2019Amazon Cuts Off FedEx Ground for Prime Shipments This Holiday
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Amazon.com says FedEx Corp.’s delivery performance is slipping and will no longer let third-party merchants use the company’s ground delivery network for quick Prime shipments through the holidays.
December 16, 2019