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Report: Amazon and Whole Foods to thrive by nabbing each other’s customers

The recently merged company has the potential to bring together different kinds of consumers and open up a host of benefits in an effort to build and retain a huge loyal shopping base.

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Report: Amazon to acquire Dubai-based e-marketplace Souq

Souq is often referred to as the “Amazon of the Middle East,” and the actual Amazon was already rumored last year to be ready to buy it for $1 billion.

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Report: Amazon bookstore planned for NYC

Independent bookstores have thrived nationally, but many have shuttered in the city in the face of rising rents and increased competition.

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Source:: Retail Dive

Report: Amazon to change some Marketplace fees

Amazon.com is reportedly going to make it easier for third-party sellers on its Marketplace platform to sell certain items.

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Source:: Retailing Today

Report: Amazon bringing ad-supported video service next year

By Nate Swanner Unless you have Amazon Prime, seeing their “Instant Video” app on your Roku or other streaming device is just one big tease. Unless you sign up for the $99/year quick-shipping Prime option, Instant Video is useless. Though we’ve heard this kind of rumor before, it’s back, and from a new source. It seems Amazon may be prepping an ad-supported Instant …

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Report: Amazon testing taxi cabs to speed up deliveries

Amazon has been using taxi-haling app Flywheel to fulfill orders in those cities this fall, reportsThe Wall Street Journal. The online retail giant is aiming to speed shipments and avoid the sort ofsnafus that plagued partners FedEx and UPS in the 2013 holiday season, according to the report.

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Under the program, Amazon paid Flywheel cabbies about $5 per package and loaded the cars with as many as 10 packages bound for a single ZIP code, the report says.

Reps from Amazon could not be reached for comment.

To address the inevitable holiday shipping delays, Amazon has also reportedly been testing its own private delivery service, has gotten the U.S. Postal Service to deliver packages on Sundays and has famously considered drone deliveries.