Amazon and Monoprix have announced they are joining forces to bring grocery items sourced from Monoprix to Prime Now service customers in Paris and its neighborhood this year. Grocery items sourced from Monoprix will be available in the Prime Now app
In its April 2016 report the e-commerce delivery expert ParcelHero predicted Amazon would become a logistics company. Now Amazon has launched end-to-end delivery services, as part of its ambition to embed its services into all our lives, and storm to
This huge savings event kicks off in earnest on 24 November, and is promising to break all sorts of records in terms of the amount spent by British consumers. Despite an ailing economy and the distinct lack of real wage growth
Black Friday shoppers may see a wider selection of deals this year as new YouGov research released today found that 23% of small businesses in the retail sector are looking at participating in Black Friday, up from 14% who say
Lego, Amazon and Nintendo are the brands leading the ‘most wished-for’ product lists online heading into the Christmas season, according to global e-commerce analytics firm Profitero. Profitero has run an Amazon Wish List analysis in the UK and US covering popular
Just over a year after launching Dash Button in the UK for the first time, Amazon today announced it has doubled the total number of buttons available. UK customers can now choose from 100 different branded buttons across dozens of
As university students old and new prepare to get to grips with the start of the academic year, Amazon is making the journey to further education easier and more affordable by offering students a six-month trial of Prime Student. As part
Andy Morris, head of retail at the Egremont Group, reports on his visit to the Chicago Amazon store
With the news that Amazon has entered Southeast Asia with the launch of Amazon Prime Now in Singapore on 27 July, Shirley Zhu, programme director at IGD Singapore, says: “Singapore has affluent consumers with busy lifestyles, a big expat population and
Amazon and John Lewis lead the list of the best brands for customer service, a list dominated by retail brands, according to the fourth annual study by service design consultancy Engine. Marks & Spencer, Tesco and Sainsbury’s complete a clean sweep
After 23 years, Amazon has finally made the inevitable move into physical retail with the purchase of Whole Foods Market. The implications for the future of retail can’t be understated. The world of e-commerce has thrived on the diversity of
Amazon has retained its title as the world’s most valuable retail brand in the 2017 BrandZTM Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands ranking, released today by WPP and Kantar Millward Brown. The brand was also the fastest-growing performer in the
Intelligence Node’s Sanjeev Sularia predicts the major technology changes that will hit the retail sector over the next few turbulent months
Amazon.co.uk was the leading UK retailer in paid search advertising over the course of the last year according to new rankings released today by the Kantar Media company AdGooroo. The study – which ranked the top 20 UK paid search advertisers
With Black Friday tomorrow, these are the 2016 holiday predictions from global e-commerce analyst firm Profitero’s SVP strategy and insights, Keith Anderson
How can retailers deliver what customers want as quickly as possible? For Sanjeev Sularia of data analytics leader Intelligence Node, the prize of fast fashion can only be won by better use of technology sanjeevsularia_sm-249x300 Fast fashion: the way brands like Zara,
In the run-up to Christmas, Amazon and Tesco are offering the UK’s best-selling toys online cheaper than rival e-commerce sites, according to independent research from global ecommerce analytics firm Profitero. Over the last month, a basket of the best-selling toys is
Retail isn’t just changing; it’s traversing ‘through the looking glass’ to a place where everything is different. New technologies, the global economic crisis and changing shopping habits have fuelled this journey. Omnichannel, for years a fashionable buzzword, is now manifesting
In the run-up to the vital Christmas and holiday season, Hasbro has overtaken Lego to become the leading brand in the Amazon UK best-selling toys & games category, according to research from global ecommerce analytics firm Profitero. Hasbro now has more
Amazon’s shock plans to move into physical brick and mortar grocery stores spells more bad news for beleaguered supermarkets, says e-commerce delivery expert ParcelHero. Amazon, the nemesis of high street stores everywhere, is reported to be abandoning its online-only model to
Many companies still treat online and offline worlds as separate entities, hampering any chance of success, warns Intelligence Node’s Sanjeev Sularia
The launch of Amazon’s ‘Internet of Things' Dash service could steal 20% of UK supermarket online sales, says e-commerce delivery expert ParcelHero. Amazon is continuing its assault on the UK grocery market with the launch of its Dash service for UK
Three players - Amazon, Flipkart and Snapdeal - have captured 70% of the Indian online shopping market, a new study by digital market intelligence firm, SimilarWeb has revealed. The dominance of the three online shopping giants who are at war for
Amazon’s announcement that it is working with the British government to test deliveries via drones represents the beginning of an exciting new era for the way people receive goods, but ultimately it won’t revolutionise the retail industry just yet. This
UK retail spend on paid search increased 24% year-on-year in the first half of 2016, according to new research released by the Kantar Media company AdGooroo. According to the study – which examined Google.co.uk desktop text ad activity on the top
