The lockdown forced by the coronavirus continues to be a driving force for Amazon, which saw its profit triple from a year ago. Those profits are expected to continue even as the company spends billions of dollars dealing with COVID-19.  Net income for the third quarter rose to $6.3 billion, or $12.37 a share, from …

For a different kind of Prime Day, Amazon decided to offer a different measure of its success. On Thursday, the e-commerce titan’s press release about Prime Day 2020 — unlike in the four previous years — didn’t headline with how the overall sale went. For example, Prime Day 2019 was such a smashing success that Amazon said it “surpassed the …

Consumers are wondering whether to buy their holiday gear during Amazon’s Prime Day tomorrow or wait until Black Friday, with the big shift in Prime Day’s placement throwing our year-end shopping routines out of whack. The answer is simple: Shop as early as possible.  Prime Day, which is usually held in July, has become a major part of the retail …

Last year’s Amazon Prime Day TV ad featured geometric cartoon townspeople — who built their trucks, parade floats and houses out of Amazon delivery boxes — at a boisterous parade, with a liveried band showing off all the great deals on fashion, home goods and electronics. In 2020, the backdrop is a suburban neighborhood where the same fictional characters are …

Just ahead of the holiday shopping season, Walmart is making a new push into a subscription service. The concept, called Walmart Plus, launched two weeks ago and so far includes only a handful of perks. But it might someday shake up the e-commerce subscription market that’s thoroughly dominated by Amazon Prime. Walmart is one of the very few companies that …

Amazon’s Prime Day is finally coming. The annual sale event will be held in the US on Tuesday, Oct. 13, and Wednesday, Oct. 14, according to an internal message Amazon sent employees this week. The message, sent Thursday, said that an official announcement from Amazon is coming Sept. 28. CNET on Tuesday reported that Prime Day would kick off on …

The holiday shopping season is fast approaching and Apple has begun lining up its new devices, including its latest entry-level iPad and iPad Air, which the tech giant revealed at a launch event Tuesday. The new iPad Air gets a bigger screen, at 10.9 inches from 10.5. That bump-up in display size was made possible by removing the home button …

Amazon’s hiring binge in 2020 apparently isn’t done yet. The e-retailer said Monday it’s hiring 100,000 more people in the US and Canada to work in its warehouses to help it manage the surge in online orders during the coronavirus pandemic. The announcement comes after the e-commerce juggernaut already hired 175,000 more US warehouse workers earlier this year. Amazon last …

Just a few days after announcing a new drone delivery program in North Carolina, Walmart is at it again. The company on Monday said it’s working with Zipline to test deliveries of health and wellness supplies in Arkansas, near its Bentonville headquarters. The new trial comes after Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, teamed up with another drone operator, Flytrex, to …

Walmart is getting into drone deliveries, kicking off a pilot project Wednesday in North Carolina to ship groceries and household items through the air. The big box retailer teamed up with drone delivery company Flytrex to run the program so it can build up its experience on shipping and packing orders using drones. The announcement comes about a week after …