Amazon continues to pour billions into its growing shipping operations, an area where the company says it is facing “intense competition.” Amazon listed “transportation and logistics services” as a business… Read More
FedEx doesn’t see Amazon as a major threat, even as the tech giant plows major resources into expanding its shipping and delivery operations. On a call with investors Tuesday, FedEx… Read More
Amazon says it will offer free holiday shipping to all of its customers on hundreds of millions of items, a potentially costly competitive move designed to keep pace with similar… Read More
Amazon has come up with another option for its customers to get packages delivered. A new concept rolling out slowly for Prime Members called Amazon Day, as first reported by CNET,… Read More
One of the things I love most about Christmas every year is the ritual of picking out the right tree from the right tree lot or farm. There’s something perfectly… Read More
Depending on how much stuff you order from Amazon, there’s probably a fair amount of cardboard coming into your house and going into the trash. A new initiative from the… Read More
We’ve been waiting for a big tech company to think outside the box when it comes to the best fit for what’s inside the box. The online marketplace eBay announced… Read More
Four unusual seafarers are arriving in Washington’s Puget Sound today after a long journey from China. At 434 feet tall with their booms up, the container cranes are the largest on… Read More
President Trump is targeting Amazon again, tweeting this morning that the U.S. Postal Service should be charging the e-commerce giant and other companies significantly more to deliver packages. Why is… Read More
Home Depot has considered acquiring shipping company XPO Logistics, according to a report from Recode, in part to keep it away from Amazon. XPO, which specializes in a variety of… Read More
To fully appreciate the way online shopping is transforming the economy, look at how much Amazon spends to put packages on doorsteps around the world. The Seattle-based e-commerce giant has shelled… Read More
Amazon is looking to speed up the process for trucks to get in and out of its massive warehouses with a new app called Relay. CNBC first spotted the app and… Read More
Canadian logistics software company Descartes Systems Group has acquired ShipRush, a Seattle company that helps small and medium-sized companies and retailers manage their shipping operations. The purchase price is $14 million,… Read More
Flexe, a Seattle startup that offers a marketplace for warehouse space, announced Thursday a new next-day delivery service, which the company said would give brands the ability to reach 98 percent… Read More
Amazon has dropped the threshold for free shipping for non-Prime members to orders of $25 or more, down from a $35 minimum. Amazon made the change quietly, updating a support page… Read More
Facing new competition from Walmart’s free shipping program, Amazon has reverted to a minimum order of $35 for people who aren’t members of its Prime subscription program to qualify for free shipping.… Read More
Using drones to deliver packages doesn’t need to eliminate delivery drivers’ jobs. Under a new system tested by UPS this week, drones could help speed up a delivery driver’s route… Read More
If you live in a city, chances are you’ve had packages delivered hours after you ordered them online. Same-day or next-day shipping is popular for obvious reasons and Amazon’s estimated… Read More
Amazon has successfully begun shipping goods from Chinese merchants to U.S. warehouses by ocean, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The move into the business is part of the retail giant’s… Read More
Globatom, a software-as-a-service startup aimed at improving the process of shipping goods, has overhauled its executive team, received new venture funding and gone all-in with Microsoft Azure as its cloud… Read More
Matson, a Honolulu-based shipping firm with 22 vessels serving Micronesia, the South Pacific and North America, has closed its four in-house data centers in favor of using Amazon Web Services, the… Read More
Like a true entrepreneur, Max Lock is always looking for the next big thing. He had his ear to the ground when he was building Schoolboy Ice Cream and saw… Read More
Amazon’s net shipping costs soared to nearly $1.75 billion in the third quarter, the second-highest quarterly total in the company’s history and the highest ever outside of the peak holiday season, according to… Read More
In late 2014 Amazon shipped a product called “Amazing! LIQUID FIRE” by air and — as you might’ve guessed — it went terribly wrong. The corrosive drain cleaner leaked, injuring… Read More
In a little more than a year, on-demand trucking startup Convoy has raised nearly $19 million from a high-profile group of investors. Convoy uses technology to bring more efficiency to trucking, an… Read More
Amazon continues to increase the value of its Prime membership, this time expanding its network of free same-day delivery options for members. The retail giant announced today that same-day delivery… Read More
Amazon’s giant 800,000 square-foot fulfillment center in Kent, WA. is open for business. The location, which Amazon plans to fill with over 1,200 new employees, shipped its first item, a… Read More
After half a decade working in logistics for Office Depot, Dan Acosta grew frustrated with long supply chain lead times. He decided to take the entrepreneurial plunge and fix what… Read More
Amazon’s net shipping costs reached an all-time high of $1.85 billion during the fourth quarter of 2015 and surpassed $5 billion for the full year — a record expense that illustrates… Read More
Amazon’s decision last year to boost the annual price of an Amazon Prime membership is helping the company’s bottom line by covering more of its rapidly rising shipping costs. That’s one… Read More