Espresso,The Filter

Instagram’s @shop and the perils of living in its ecosystem

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

Espresso,The Filter

Are brands repeating their messages or letting them sink in?

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

Espresso,The Filter

Big brands need to unbundle themselves if they want to survive

Espresso,The Filter

Amazon and Absolutism