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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 …

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 …

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 …

Just ahead of Amazon’s important Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, the company now faces a new, larger threat from its many critics in the labor and immigration movements. Over 40 groups said Tuesday they’ve created a new coalition called Athena to push back against Amazon on a variety of fronts. These groups include the immigrant-focused organizations Make the Road New York and Awood Center in …

Game 7 of the World Series was a few hours away when Fanatics tech chief Matt Madrigal met me in the Manhattan office of his sports-gear company. His voice was filled with excitement as he talked about an expected surge in customer sales that late October day after the new champion won — he just wasn’t yet sure which team …

Amazon on Monday said it plans to open its first new brand of grocery store in California next year, as it amps up its ambitious push to become a bigger name in food. “Amazon is opening a grocery store in Woodland Hills in 2020,” an Amazon spokesperson confirmed to CNET on Monday morning, soon after the company published four new …

Perhaps your parents just made a sudden, unplanned visit from out of town, or Bill Lumbergh is making you work Saturdays. Maybe your team is just tanking. Either way, if you want to sell off your NFL tickets and don’t feel like waiting, StubHub is now offering the appropriately named Sell It Now feature. With this service, StubHub will pop …