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Amazon’s Cashierless Store Is Almost Ready for Prime Time

For the past year, Amazon employees have been test driving Amazon Go, an experimental convenience store in downtown Seattle. The idea is to let consumers w...

Amazon Playing Catch-Up In Push To Police Chemicals In Products

Amazon.com Inc. is developing a plan to regulate the chemicals used by suppliers, but it still lags Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Target Corp. and other retailers...

Amazon Faces Challenge From Malls And Alibaba In Singapore

As Amazon.com Inc. pushes into Southeast Asia with a new venture into Singapore, the online retailer is facing some tough hurdles. Shopping in air-conditio...

Yes, Google Can Continue To Dominate Advertising: Gadfly

The biggest worry about Google and Facebook is whether they can stay Google and Facebook. That is, can those two companies continue to dominate advertising...

Amazon To Reap Fulfilment Benefits From Whole Foods Purchase: Bernstein

Sell-side research and brokerage firm Bernstein believes that Amazon could use its acquisition of Whole Foods to develop underperforming stores into &lsquo...

Amazon's Food Offensive Forcing Supermarkets Into 21st Century

Walk into a grocery store 10 years from now, and you’ll see more prepared meals, personalised recommendations and perhaps even an in-house restaurant...

Whole Foods' CEO Pay Discount Expires With Amazon Deal: Gadfly

Amazon's deal to buy Whole Foods may mark a number of things: the end of Whole Foods as an independent company; the end of grocery business; the end of the...

How Bezos's Grocery Shopping Shakes Up An $800 Billion Industry

Since its founding 23 years ago, Amazon.com Inc. has upended the business of selling books, music and just about everything else we consume -- except food....