Amazon
This coverage examines Amazon’s operations, strategy, and influence within the UK retail market. Reporting highlights e-commerce growth, logistics and fulfilment, technology initiatives, financial results, product innovation, and leadership decisions. Focused on commercial impact and competitive dynamics, it offers insights for retail professionals navigating digital transformation and multi-channel competition.
-
Mar- 2021 -15 MarchComment
Why retail success depends on clean customer address data
The pivot to online shopping during the pandemic has opened a valuable revenue stream for many retailers. However, to stay competitive in this increasingly online era, retailers must take a step back and consider all aspects of how they can ensure success via this channel. It is imperative to understand…
Read More » -
12 MarchFeatures
A look at what an online sales tax means for businesses
In last year’s Business Rates Review: Call for Evidence, Jesse Norman MP, financial secretary to the Treasury, said the government would explore the potential options of “alternative” property and online taxes which could act as “possible replacements” for rates to tackle the increases in businesses online presence. The proposition would…
Read More » -
5 MarchSupermarkets
Amazon launches UK grocery store
Amazon has opened its first physical store outside of the US, with an Amazon Fresh grocery shop in Ealing, London. Selling prepared meals, groceries, and Amazon devices, the store will also include a counter for collecting and returning online orders. The smart shop will rely on technology to guide the…
Read More » -
Feb- 2021 -25 FebruaryOnline & Digital
Amazon tops annual list of global retailers with $1.63tn market cap
Amazon has topped the list of the top 25 global retailers with a £1.15bn ($1.63tn) market cap for the year ending 31 January 2020, according to data from TradingPlatforms.com. The online retailer has benefitted from the Covid-19 pandemic as consumers have shifted to buying products and services online. E-commerce site…
Read More » -
19 FebruaryComment
E-commerce: The benefits and hidden dangers for an independent retailer
Over the past year, repeated lockdowns and tiered restrictions have forced retailers to close their premises and halt trading. Customers have had little choice but to do more of their shopping online. For independent retailers, e-commerce could provide an opportunity to take advantage of recent shifts in shopping behaviour and…
Read More » -
17 FebruaryAdvice
How retailers can succeed in the era of anonymised digital marketing
As we peer out of the fog of Covid, and look towards a time when we can emerge from Lockdown in the weeks ahead, it is clear the retail outlook has altered dramatically forever. Many titans of the past few decades have collapsed and the genie is fully out of…
Read More » -
16 February
Amazon infiltrated by fake review sites, Which? report finds
A Which? investigation has uncovered a “thriving” industry of review manipulation businesses targeting Amazon, despite ongoing measures to combat fake reviews on its platform. Amid growing competition between sellers, Amazon, which sold an estimated $295bn (£212bn) worth of products worldwide in 2020, has seen a rise in sellers “turning to…
Read More » -
12 FebruaryOnline & Digital
Amazon investors call for end to anti-union interference
A group of more than 70 Amazon investors are calling on the company to end interference against efforts by its workers to unionise in America, according to the Financial Times. More than 5,800 Amazon employees in Alabama are set to vote in a mail-in ballot; the first time attempt by…
Read More » -
8 FebruaryOnline & Digital
Amazon’s tax to turnover ratio dropped to 0.37% in 2020
Amazon saw its tax to turnover ratio fall to 0.37% last year, despite sales rising by more than 51% in the UK. In comparison, the Centre for Retail Research reported bricks-and-mortar retailers paid around 2.3% of annual retail sales overall in business rates. The online retailer’s sales for 2020, ending…
Read More » -
8 February
Sunak mulls ‘Amazon Tax’ to help with UK debts
Chancellor Rishi Sunak is allegedly considering a double tax raid on online retailers such as Amazon who profited during the pandemic. According to The Sunday Times, leaked emails show that Treasury officials have already called for tech firms and retailers to meet this month ahead of the March budget to…
Read More »
