In 2014, Tech Crunch reported Amazon filing a patent for “Anticipatory Shipping”, i.e., getting the package ready for shipping even before a customer orders the package. The coverage on this issue has been minimal. Today, through a student (ht: PB),…
The Amazon Cloud Cam and compatible locks. Photo Credit: Becca Farsace / The Verge Amazon has just released Amazon Key to Amazon Prime members. (I am not an Amazon affiliate, i.e., I derive no financial interest from the link). Amazon Key…
I received an email note from a student in the Forecasting class (thanks: HT) about excess inventories of Snap Spectacles. The article on Information (subscription required) mentions that only (slightly more than) 150,000 units were sold and hundreds of thousands…
Wall Street Journal reports that Amazon has signed contracts with Apartment building owners and managers in order to install 850,000 locker units in apartment complexes. One of the challenges that remain in last-mile deliveries is “matching” delivery times with guaranteed…
An excellent recent article on Atlantic by Derek Thompson talks about how the History of Sears predicts nearly everything that Amazon is doing. I recommend this well-researched article as a great reading to understand Amazon in the context of how…
This November’s Atlantic Issue has an interesting, humorous article (includes a bit of french from a Parisian cab driver) about the very first Costco in France. The location on the outskirts of Paris has apparently become “an unlikely hit in…