Amazon, in sign of growth, holds job fair for US warehouses
FALL RIVER, Mass. — Amazon is holding a giant job fair and plans to make thousands of job offers on the spot at nearly a dozen U.S. warehouses.Wednesday's hiring spree is a sign of Amazon's growth at a time traditional retailers are closing stores and cutting jobs.Nearly 40,000 of the 50,000 packing, sorting and shipping jobs will be full time; most of them will count toward Amazon's previously announced goal of adding 100,000 full-time workers by the middle of next year.The event is taking place at Amazon shipping sites around the country.One labor expert, Anthony Carnevale at Georgetown University, says more people are likely to lose jobs in brick-and-mortar stores than get jobs in Amazon warehouses.
Ready-to-cook meals from Amazon in bid to expand groceries
NEW YORK — Amazon has begun selling ready-to-cook meal packages for busy households in a bid to expand its groceries business.Amazon-branded meal kits come with raw ingredients needed to prepare such meals as chicken tikka masala and falafel patties.
Amazon’s new TV combines over the air channels and streaming apps
Amazon has a new TV that just might be a cord cutter's dream - it combines over the air local channels and streaming apps in one interface.Amazon is known for its Fire TV devices, but now you can get that same streaming media experience in a full TV set without an additional box.
Walmart unveils new tools to help shoppers save time
NEW YORK — Walmart is pushing convenience for the back-to-school shopping season as it tries to compete better with Amazon.The world's largest retailer is making hundreds of school staples like notebooks and pens available through its online grocery shopping service that offers curbside pickup at the store.
Amazon Prime Day 2017: The best deals, hidden discounts and more
Amazon's annual day of deals kicks off at 8:00 p.m. CDT on Monday.It's the third installment of Prime Day, and the event has already proven to net massive sales.This year the company has promised it will be bigger than ever, with discounts on hundreds of thousands of items for Prime members all over the globe.Amazon has given a few hints about what's to come.
What Amazon wants from Whole Foods: Data on shopping habits
NEW YORK — Why is Amazon spending nearly $14 billion for Whole Foods ?
Fake Amazon cancellation emails making the rounds in Wisconsin
MADISON -- If you got an order cancellation email from Amazon.com for a product you don’t remember buying, it could be a scam.
Amazon buying Whole Foods in bold move into brick and mortar
NEW YORK — Amazon is buying Whole Foods in a deal valued at about $13.7 billion, a stunning move into brick-and-mortar retail that sets the stage for more radical store experimentation and intensified competition with grocery rivals.The deal unites the online juggernaut with the grocery store chain that fell behind as the organic and natural foods it helped popularize expanded to more locations and shoppers found "good enough" alternatives.Amazon already offers grocery-delivery services in five markets, but the Whole Foods purchase would let it expand to many more.
Apple unveils 'HomePod' speaker, first new product in years
SAN JOSE, California -- Apple nodded to several up-and-coming technology trends, unveiling a new "smart" home speaker and device features touching on virtual reality, online privacy and a form of artificial intelligence called machine learning.The "HomePod" speaker unveiled Monday is similar to devices from rivals, some of which have been on the market for years.
Target locked in game of shipping tag with Walmart, Amazon
NEW YORK — Target, Walmart and Amazon are engaged in a game of shipping tag, each trying to adjust their free threshold and other shipping strategies to a level that can lure shoppers away from one of the other.Minneapolis-based Target has the furthest to go as it tries to put itself in better competition with Amazon, the undisputed online leader, and Walmart, which has been buying online startups to beef up its own operations.Target has announced plans to put more money into both its online operations and its stores, and saw it online sales rise 22 percent for the first quarter.
5 reasons Amazon is experimenting with physical stores
NEW YORK — Is the online giant of retail also looking to conquer physical stores?Amazon has been dabbling in physical retail since 2015, during which time it's opened a half-dozen bookstores that double as gadget emporia, a score of campus bookstores that don't sell books and a convenience store without cashiers.
Amazon aims to help parents monitor - and talk to - kids
NEW YORK — Amazon is introducing new tools to help parents see what their kids are doing on the company's Fire tablets.
Amazon's Prime Now 1-hour delivery service expands to Milwaukee
MILWAUKEE -- Amazon announced on Wednesday, March 22nd that its Prime Now one-hour delivery service is expanding to Milwaukee.Prime Now, available only to Prime members, provides free two-hour delivery on thousands of items from milk, eggs and ice cream to diapers, Amazon devices and more.Through Prime Now, one-hour delivery is $7.99 and two-hour delivery is free.
Kenosha Amazon donates 100K diapers, 200K baby wipes after theft from Fox Cities Diaper Bank
KENOSHA -- After 100,000 diapers destined for babies from low-income families were stolen from the Fox Cities Diaper Bank, Amazon's fulfillment center in Kenosha and its employees stepped up to help.According to the Appleton Post-Crescent, the theft is believed to have occurred between January 3rd and February 13th.
Starbucks launches voice ordering via app, Amazon's Alexa
SEATTLE — Amazon's Alexa is now able to order up a latte.Starbucks says it's partnering with Amazon's voice platform to offer what it calls "on command" ordering.
Amazon says it will create 100,000 jobs across the U.S.
NEW YORK -- Amazon just delivered an olive branch to President-elect Donald Trump.Amazon announced Thursday that it plans to create more than 100,000 new full-time jobs in the U.S. in the next 18 months, bringing its total workforce in the country to 280,000.Don't expect Amazon to hire 100,000 coders, however.
Run-DMC sues Walmart, Amazon, other retailers for $50 million
NEW YORK — The rap group Run-DMC has filed a $50 million lawsuit in New York accusing Walmart, Amazon, Jet and other retailers of selling products that traded on the group's name without permission.The group says the defendants are utilizing its name in the "production, advertising, promotion, marketing, sale and distribution of various products, including glasses, t-shirts and patches."It says the retailers have improperly profited, diluted and harmed the Run-DMC brand, which it says has generated more than $100 million in revenue since its inception in the 1980s.The suit was filed in the Southern District of New York on Thursday.Run-DMC was founded in New York in 1981 by Joseph "Run" Simmons, Darryl "DMC" McDaniels and Jason "Jam Master Jay" Mizell.Amazon and Walmart, which also owns Jet, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Girl uses mom's thumbprint to unlock phone and buy $250 in Pokemon items from Amazon
Some Pokemon fans will do anything to catch ‘em all.A 6-year-old girl made $250 in Pokemon purchases despite the fact that her mother has a fingerprint-ID locked phone.According to the Wall Street Journal, Arkansas mother Bethany Howell was taking a nap when her 6-year-old daughter, Ashlynd, used Howell’s thumbprint to unlock the phone and gain access to the Amazon app.Ashlynd proceeded to buy 13 Pokemon items totaling $250.
Amazon to build two fulfillment centers in Chicago area
Amazon officials said the company has shipped more than one billion items during the 2016 holiday season -- more than five times its sales in 2015 between November 1st and December 19th.Of those one billion items, the Echo Dot was the most popular -- selling nine times as many as the number sold in 2015.There were plenty of last-minute shoppers -- with December 23rd the most popular day for Prime Now deliveries.