Espresso,PrimeTime

PrimeTime: Amazon expands freight airline to reduce shipping costs, faces mounting criticism against cashier-free retail, launches Amazon Moments, raises prices at Whole Foods, expands its hospital supplies offering; Amazon exclusive partnerships surpass Amazon private labels

Espresso,PrimeTime

PrimeTime: Amazon Shipping expands; Amazon tempts vendors to develop Amazon-exclusive brands, sells beauty bundles from its private label, is building a virtual changing room app

Espresso,PrimeTime

PrimeTime: Amazon is offering wide-reaching targeted consumer data to advertisers; UPS is expanding its Amazon Key competitor; Some direct-to-consumer brands are spurning Amazon; Amazon is advertising its most profitable CPG products to save on shipping

Espresso,The Grinds

The Grinds: Hudson Yards banks on digitally-native brands, Rihanna lands LVMH deal, Consumers question politically-minded ads, Brandless unveils subscription

Podcast

Short Stories — with Sam Alston of Big Lives

Podcast

Kiddie Cup — with Miki Berardelli of Kidbox

Espresso,The Grinds

The Grinds: Ipsy unveils members-only beauty ecommerce site, Boutique and vintage vendors turn to Instagram, Retailers invite brands to advertise with package inserts, MoviePass acquires Moviefone

Espresso,PrimeTime

PrimeTime: Amazon Channels reigns over television subscriptions; Amazon upgrades its beauty shopping experience, will launch the Marketplace Appstore for sellers, is closing customer accounts because of returns; Whole Foods tests a store-in-a-store housewares concept, Acer’s new laptops are integrated with Alexa

Espresso,PrimeTime

PrimeTime: Amazon Go expands to San Francisco and Chicago; Amazon outfits boxes with scannable codes to repurpose the cardboard, no longer buys product listing ads on Google; Microsoft and Amazon announce first Cortana-Alexa integration, Apple will sell some video subscriptions through its Apple TV app, Sears will provide full-service installation to tire customers on Amazon, Amazon’s return service at Kohl’s is driving foot traffic to the department store

Espresso,PrimeTime

PrimeTime: Amazon is using 3D body scanning to collect data to grow its apparel business, halted its expansion in Seattle, added a children’s book subscription to Prime, launched a new private-label pet brand called Wag

Espresso,PrimeTime

PrimeTime: Amazon will sell an Echo Dot for kids, raise its annual Prime membership fee, stream Thursday Night Football, double its credit line, sell Chico’s apparel; Amazon is attempting to win over HQ2 finalists and growing its retail business with profits from AWS and advertising; Private equity firms want to consolidate top Amazon sellers

Espresso,PrimeTime

PrimeTime: Amazon Key delivers to cars; Walmart’s online grocery program improvements are paying off; Amazon gives Best Buy exclusive rights to sell Fire TVs, inked live video game deal with the NBA, may surpass Walmart as top U.S. apparel retailer; Home Depot amps up tech team to compete with Amazon

Espresso,PrimeTime

PrimeTime: Amazon expands Prime Wardrobe, braces itself for new state taxes, outpaces Best Buy as top electronics retailer; Amazon Echo partners with home builders; Amazon Fuse will expand the company’s media ecosystem; Walmart may buy stake in Flipkart

Espresso,PrimeTime

PrimeTime: Amazon grows its private-label presence; U.S. warehouses unfit for ecommerce fulfillment; Amazon wants Alexa to compete with Venmo; Walmart continues to compete with Amazon via price matching, pickup kiosks and healthcare; Amazon’s R&D expenses surpass those of all other U.S. companies

Playbooks

Playbook: How to embed your company in the experience economy

Espresso,The Grinds

The Grinds: Best Buy, other retailers crack down on returns, Duty-free airport retail thrives, ASOS stands out with its product descriptions, West Elm sells experiences with local artists