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Amazon customers now have even more options for in-store returns
Image: Getty Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Amazon customers now have a growing list of options when it comes to returning their online purchases in person. In addition to any of the hundreds of Whole Foods supermarkets across the country, certain Kohl’s stores will now accept returns of “eligible items” as part of a retail partnership between the two companies that began earlier this summer. SEE ALSO: Amazon’s out of the original Amazon Echo right now, and they won’t say why The hassle of sending back unwanted products can be one of the biggest deterrents to online shopping and one of the […]
A Donald Trump tweet knocked $6 billion off Amazon’s value
Image: alex wong/Getty Images Donald Trump knocked $6 billion off of Amazon before most of the country was awake. In a tweet sent at 6:12 a.m. EST, Trump claimed Amazon was “doing great damage to tax paying retailers,” resulting in the loss of jobs. The @washingtonpost, which loses a fortune, is owned by @JeffBezos for purposes of keeping taxes down at his no profit company, @amazon. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 7, 2015 That was just the beginning. Since then, Trump has on three other occasions launched tweets at Amazon, including the time the president threatened Amazon with an ‘internet […]
Man hacks his Amazon Alexa to talk out of a skull and it’s super creepy
The Amazon Echo is creepy enough with fears of Alexa listening in on every conversation, it’s convenience may come at the price of security for some anxious users. But since it’s creepy already, why not make it a little worse? Inspired by the Big Mouth Billy Bass Alexa, Mike McGurrin managed to make his Alexa speak out of a talking skull he used previously for a Halloween decoration, and it’s as creepy as it sounds. The whole thing, dubbed Project Yorick, is well documented on Hackster.io, just incase you have a talking skull lying around and you prefer your Echo […]
What’s next for Amazon’s private labels? Possibly motor home supplies and auto parts
Image: Sean Gallup/Getty Images Do you wear Amazon? You may not even know it if you do. Amazon has long sold commodity-type goods like batteries and baby wipes through its own prominently marked brands. But as it’s branched into more variable categories like food and fashion, it’s quietly launched a stable of satellite in-house labels that make no mention of their giant parent company. SEE ALSO: Amazons homegrown products are moving beyond batteries and baby wipes And several more of these sorts of secret Amazon brands may be in the works. A Quartzdeep dive into the company’s hundreds of trademark […]
The unsexy source of most of Amazon’s cash
Image: Sean Gallup/Getty Images Amazon may swallow up nearly half of every dollar spent on online shopping, but that isn’t what’s fueled its nine-quarter profitability streak. The real money flows from a northern Virginia server compound from which the company powers Netflix, Slack, Pinterest and thousands of other sites that make up close to half of the web. SEE ALSO: Jeff Bezos was the world’s richest human for all of 6 hours Amazon Web Services (AWS) once again lifted the company’s quarterly earnings into the black in an otherwise lukewarm report in which it fell short of Wall Street expectations […]