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Retailers are looking to compete with Amazon through third-party logistics providers who can tackle the e-fulfillment challenges with service and market specialization as well as making strategic investments in flexible automation.

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.

Walmart is in advanced talks to acquire e-commerce menswear company Bonobos, the companies have reportedly agreed on price, and the deal will be finalized upon completion of due diligence.

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.

Walmart is creating a startup incubator charged with developing cutting-edge retail technologies as part of a wider drive to modernize its supermarkets and challenge Amazon in the online digital e-commerce sector.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a staggering success story; you could reasonably argue that it's actually Amazon's most important business, but so many companies and services rely on it that it ripples across the entire world when it goes down.

Amazon has become near-synonymous with online shopping in the US, but it’s barely a blip in the Chinese market, and according to a recent report, Amazon’s China site holds less than 1% of the country’s $378 billion e-commerce business in terms of market share.

After years of writing about supply chains, Jim Tompkins is building out an ambitious e-fulfillment network for retailers and e-tailers, a collaboration, or rather an alliance, that will allow retailers to compete in “post-click logistics.”

Most of today’s retailers and their supply chain advisors understand the shift in retail sales to the online channel but, for many years, the inclusion of gasoline, groceries, and automobile sales in U.S. retail sales numbers masked the true extent of eCommerce penetration.