Target Aims To Boost Same-Day Delivery By Acquiring Shipt
Target plans to boost its same-day delivery capability by paying $550 million for Shipt, its latest move to try to catch up with Amazon.
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Target plans to boost its same-day delivery capability by paying $550 million for Shipt, its latest move to try to catch up with Amazon.
The world's largest retailer said Wednesday that it will change its legal name from Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to Walmart Inc. as it shifts away from physical stores in an age of online shopping.
Google is pulling its popular YouTube video service from Amazon's Fire TV and Echo Show devices in an escalating feud that has caught consumers in the crossfire.
A review of the best gifts to get for the techie in your life this holiday season.
Get ready to shop 'til you drop without ever getting up from your desk or maybe even leaving your house. It's Cyber Monday and retailers are trying to entice you to click the "buy" button online.
Retailers worked hard to attract shoppers to stores on Black Friday, offering in-person deals meant to counter the ease of shopping by phone on Amazon.
Even as retailers are counting on a lift from a better economy, they're looking beyond economic data and mapping out ways to pick up sales from other retailers, all as Amazon expands its reach.
Amazon associates in North Texas delivered $15,000 worth of backpacks filled with school supplies and $24,000 to support science, technology, engineering efforts to six schools in Dallas and Fort Worth.
Online retailer Amazon now has more than a dozen stores selling toys, electronics and small gifts. This could make a massive impact heading into the holiday shopping season.
It looks like Dallas has a fighting chance to be Amazon's choice for its second headquarters in the US.
Feeling the upheaval in retail, some store chains are making strategic alliances, and that can mean picking sides. Amazon and Walmart are both assembling coalitions.
From dangling more discounts to expanding business hours to sprucing up stores, retailers are pulling out all the stops for the critical holiday shopping season.
Would you let a stranger in your house to drop off a package? Amazon hopes so. The online retailer is launching a service that would allow delivery people to walk into your home to drop off boxes.
As they gear up for the Christmas shopping season, UPS, Fed Ex, Walmart, Amazon and others are looking to hire hundreds of people at a job fair in Dallas Thursday afternoon.
Amazon said Monday that it received 238 proposals from cities and regions in the United States, Canada and Mexico hoping to be the home of the company's second headquarters.
Some North Texas leaders are making their pitch to get Amazon's second headquarters.
Economic incentives are expected to be major selling points for a number of Texas cities making pitches to Amazon for the Seattle-based company's second headquarters and the estimated 50,000 jobs that would come with it.
Walmart is making new moves to speed up the return process for online purchases.
Access to light rail could help UT Dallas or the Dallas Midtown Project lure Amazon's second corporate headquarters and up to 50,000 jobs.
Amazon is talking about offering up to 50,000 jobs with salaries and total compensation of $100,000 and investing up to $5 billion.
Amazon begins its foray into the live streaming of NFL games on Thursday night when it will air a matchup between the Bears and Packers on its Prime Video service. Amazon will stream 11 games this season.
Plans submitted include a 500,000-square foot office building to be delivered in 2019, the timeline Amazon requested.
The e-commerce giant said Friday that it is partnering with online ordering platform Olo, in a deal that could boost the number of restaurant chains on its Amazon Restaurants delivery service.
Amazon is attempting to develop glasses that pair with Alexa and would allow users to access the voice-activated assistant outside of the home, according to a newspaper report.
Kohl's, which is opening some in-store Amazon shops, will start accepting returns for the online retailer at some of its stores in Los Angeles and Chicago starting next month.
