Amazon to Focus on Grocery, Alexa: Webcast Recap
Amazon today (Feb 1) announced its financial results for Q4, 2017 and full year 2017. Net sales increased 38% to $60.5 billion in the fourth quarter, compared with $43.7 billion in fourth quarter 2016. For the full year of 2017, net sales increased 31% to $177.9...
Amazon’s Fresh Grocery Strategy: Beyond Whole Foods
A new report by OneClickRetail states that Amazon’s grocery sales exceeded $ 1.5bn in 2017. The report attributes much of the growth to Amazon’s June 2017 acquisition of Whole Foods Market. We would like to point out some other aspects of Amazon’s...
Marketing Innovation: Amazon’s Sample Boxes
Amazon’s Sample Box is a special offer by Amazon, for a “subscription box” style package, which contains samples of products in various categories, priced between $7 and $ 20, where the entire cost then goes towards a purchase made in that category...