Amazon now lets Prime customers in a handful of markets order stuff at midnight and have the packages arrive at their doorsteps overnight. This new feature is part of Amazon’s announcement Tuesday that it has sped up its same-day deliveries in Philadelphia, Phoenix, Orlando and Dallas.  The e-commerce giant has been working for the past …

Four years ago, Amazon raised eyebrows when it launched its first brick-and-mortar location. Now the online retail giant runs all kinds of physical stores, from booksellers to grocery pickup locations to cashierless convenience stores. It’s clear the company is still experimenting, but it can be a lot for shoppers to process. This past week, the company opened yet another new …

Amazon said Thursday that it’s planning to rapidly expand its hiring in Bellevue, Washington, just east of its Seattle headquarters, in a sign of the company’s continued interest in bringing on tens of thousands more employees. The company said it’s on track to create over 15,000 new jobs in Bellevue within the next few years, after it opened its first office in …

Amazon on Thursday revealed it now has more than 150 million paid Prime members globally. The company last offered a specific figure on paid Prime memberships in April 2018, when it said the number was over 100 million. The new figure was announced as part of Amazon’s unexpectedly strong fourth-quarter earnings report. Amazon said Thursday that more people joined Prime in …

It’s OK if you got motion sickness from following Amazon’s earnings reports over the past year. Case in point: The e-commerce heavyweight’s profits crashed in the second and third quarters of 2019, following a heady string of record earnings. And just when profits seemed to be on their way down, they’re right back up again in the fourth quarter, just …

Several Amazon employees say they’ve been threatened with termination for talking publicly about their climate change campaign. Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, an activist group within Amazon that started in late 2018, said in a statement Thursday that four of its members were targeted by the human resources and legal departments at Amazon for speaking out publicly, including to the …

Amazon on Wednesday unveiled its shipping cutoff times for this year’s holiday season, with the company using its growing footprint of stores and one-day shipping service to extend its sales right up to Christmas. The e-commerce giant has worked over the past six years to ramp up its own shipping and logistics capabilities. That work was sparked in part by …

Walmart is testing new ways to deliver your milk, eggs and bread using self-driving vehicles. The world’s largest retailer said Tuesday it has teamed up with Nuro, a Mountain View, California-based autonomous vehicle startup, to pilot grocery deliveries in Houston. Nuro, founded in 2016, has already raised $1 billion in funding, according to Crunchbase. It has previously partnered with Domino’s for …

Buying stuff using a phone keeps growing in popularity, with this holiday season showing just how big those little screens have become for retailers. On Cyber Monday, purchases via phones surged to $3.1 billion, helping make it the biggest online sales day in US history, reaching $9.4 billion, according to Adobe. That’s up from $7.9 billion last year. Purchasing peaked …

The kickoff to the holiday shopping season is going pretty much as expected, despite plenty of potential problems that could’ve pushed it off course. Tariffs, anti-Amazon sentiment, worries about the economy — nah, consumers are spending a whole lot to nab all those deals. Black Friday turned out to be the second-largest online sales day ever — shy of last …