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  • TAMPA, FLORIDA – NOVEMBER 27: Amazon associate Luis Colon works to ship out same day orders during Cyber Monday at the Same-Day Delivery Facility Fulfillment Center on November 27, 2023 in Tampa, Florida. Dedicated to online shopping, Cyber Monday is one of Amazon’s busiest days following Thanksgiving, marked by retailers providing substantial discounts and promotions. (Photo by Octavio Jones/Getty Images)Retail

    Cyber Monday’s buying frenzy is bigger than expected, capping a record 5-days of holiday sales and limited recession fears

    By Spencer Soper and Bloomberg
  • KANSAS CITY, MO – SEPTEMBER 15: Jeff Bezos looks on from the sidlines before kickoff between the Kansas City Chiefs and Los Angeles Chargers at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium on September 15, 2022 in Kansas City, Missouri. (Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images)Tech

    Convoy, a Bezos-backed trucking tech company valued at $3.8 billion last year, is shutting down: ‘Today is your last day at the company’

    By Spencer Soper, Lizette Chapman, and others
  • PENNSYLVANIA, PA – FEBRUARY 23: A group of truck convoy headed to Washington D.C. from Pennsylvania, United States on February 23, 2022 to protest vaccination mandates and in solidarity for Canada. (Photo by Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)Tech

    Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates-backed trucking startup to slash hundreds of jobs after being just weeks away from running out of money

    By Spencer Soper, Dina Bass, and others
  • An Amazon Fresh grocery store in Schaumburg, Illinois, US, on Monday, July 24, 2023. Amazon.com Inc. is launching the biggest overhaul of its grocery business since it acquired Whole Foods Market six years agorevamping stores, testing new highly automated warehouses and, for the first time, offering fresh-food delivery to customers who aren’t Prime subscribers. Photographer: Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesRetail

    Amazon slashes the threshold for free grocery deliveries, marking a partial reversal from earlier this year

    By Spencer Soper and Bloomberg
  • Andy Jassy, chief executive officer of Amazon.Com Inc., speaks during the Bloomberg Technology Summit in San Francisco, California, US, on Wednesday, June 8, 2022. The summit highlights the ways in which society has been changed by digital disruption and provides the roadmap for what lies ahead. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesRetail

    ‘After careful consideration,’ Amazon’s scraps an extra 2% fee for some merchants as regulators plot an antitrust lawsuit

    By Spencer Soper and Bloomberg
  • An employee places an item in to a distribution cage at the Amazon.com Inc. LCY3 fulfillment center in Dartford, UK, on Friday, July 7, 2023. Amazon launched Prime Day in 2015 to attract new subscribers who now pay $139 a year for shipping discounts, video streaming and other perks. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesRetail

    Amazon is bracing for the holiday shopping frenzy by hiring 250,000 workers, earning $20.50 hourly on average amid a labor shortage

    By Matt Day, Spencer Soper, and others
  • NEW YORK, NEW YORK – NOVEMBER 30: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks during the New York Times DealBook Summit in the Appel Room at the Jazz At Lincoln Center on November 30, 2022 in New York City. The New York Times held its first in person DealBook Summit since the start of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic with speakers from the worlds of financial services, technology, consumer goods, private investment, venture capital, banking, media, public relations, policy, government, and academia. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)Tech

    Influencers making big money mock Amazon’s offer of $25 per video to recruit them

    By Alex Barinka, Spencer Soper, and others
  • Andy JassyRetail

    Amazon surges as Andy Jassy’s big cuts come with big revenue beat

    By Spencer Soper and Bloomberg
  • Andy JassyRetail

    Amazon wants to stay on top of the $1.4 trillion ecommerce market and will double its same-day delivery facilities in ‘coming years’

    By Spencer Soper and Bloomberg
  • Andy JassySuccess

    Amazon’s return to office means relocating some remote workers who moved away, sources say

    By Spencer Soper and Bloomberg
  • Prime logo displayed on a phone screen and Amazon logo displayed on a screen in the background are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on January 19, 2023. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Tech

    Amazon is coming for the mobile phone industry and might offer free service to Prime members

    By Scott Moritz, Matt Day, and others
  • Amazon employees and supporters gather during a walk-out protest against recent layoffs, a return-to-office mandate, and the company’s environmental impact, outside Amazon headquarters in Seattle, Washington, on May 31, 2023. (Photo by Jason Redmond / AFP) (Photo by JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images)Retail

    ‘Listen to your employees’: Amazon workers walk off the job to protest climate and return-to-the-office policies amid massive layoffs

    By Matt Day, Spencer Soper, and others
  • SAN FRANCISCO, CA – APRIL 12: The Whole Foods in Mid Market Street is seen after it was closed due to employee safety concerns after being open for only a year in San Francisco, California, United States on April 12, 2023. Overall crime is down 10% this year but robberies are up 13%, police data shows. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)Retail

    Whole Foods plans to layoff hundreds in what is just the latest in a series of cutbacks by parent Amazon

    By Spencer Soper and Bloomberg
  • The entrance to the new Amazon Go storeRetail

    Amazon’s cost-cutting binge claims another casualty: Self-checkout stores in 3 cities

    By Spencer Soper and Bloomberg
  • Amazon CEO Andy JassyFinance

    Amazon layoffs likely coming for retail and HR divisions in the latest round of historic cuts

    By Matt Day, Spencer Soper, and others