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Walmart's U.S. business is still showing signs of thriving, as evidenced by the company's fiscal first-quarter results, its U.S. ecommerce gross merchandise volume grew a whopping 69% fueled largely by more clicks and sales on Walmart.com.

As furniture becomes one of the fastest-growing segments of U.S. online retail, Amazon aims to make a major push into its marketplace.

A Wall Street Journal report last week noted that Amazon intends to “build four massive warehouses to help it deliver bulky appliances and furniture,” as “part of a strategy to expand furniture offerings and speed up delivery times.”

Warehouse marketplace Flexe Inc. says it is now offering online retailers access to nationwide next-day delivery, adding to a push by companies to build fulfillment services that compete with Amazon.com Inc.

Established carriers and logistics services providers are clashing with tech-savvy newcomers to gain market share in this critical, final piece of the $2 trillion e-commerce market.

Over the past two years, Amazon has been seeking to take over more shipping duties from the likes of UPS and FedEx by leasing trucks, planes, and ships, and now the e-commerce giant could be eyeing driverless car technology as a way to get items to people's doors faster.

The Seattle e-commerce juggernaut just won a patent for “on-demand apparel manufacturing,” in which machines only start snipping and stitching once an order has been placed, Amazon could wade deeper into developing its own apparel.

Scott Galloway speaks at L2’s Amazon Clinic about how Amazon is disrupting retail.

In this white paper we explore; how do sales of Echo devices compare with other Amazon hardware devices, how does Amazon’s device ecosystem compare with Apple’s, and have Echo devices’ commerce potential been unlocked.

The online retail giant has decided to open up what amounts to Alexa’s ears, her 7-Mic Voice Processing Technology, to third party hardware makers who want to build the digital brain into their devices.

At a press conference on Wednesday, Plug Power (Booth N207) announced that it has reached an agreement with Amazon to deploy Plug Power fuel cells and hydrogen technology in its fulfillment network.

Pushed to the limit by e-commerce and omni-channel, the modern DC needs flexible, safe and efficient conveyor and sortation solutions that support high-velocity operations.

With the growth of e-commerce, the technology stack for distribution centers is expanding. We explore why WES/WCS software is gaining prominence and share how operations are expanding their use of data science.

This report analyzes disruptive retail models that have emerged over the past decade, in an attempt to identify winning business strategies and their underlying consumer behaviors.

Sears Holdings finally admitted it probably can't survive as a going concern this week, Sears has lost over $10B since 2010 - when it last showed a profit - and owes over $4B to its creditors.