All Amazon articles
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NewsAmazon to offer warehouse workers term-time only contracts
Amazon is offering warehouse staff who are parents, grandparents or guardians, the option to choose to work in term-time only.
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Amazon faces more strikes as new warehouses back industrial action
Amazon workers are planning more strikes after staff at two more warehouses backed a vote on whether to take industrial action.
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Amazon beats expectations with latest results
Amazon did better than expected in its first quarter when sales and income climbed despite flat ecommerce sales.
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Striking Amazon workers launch bid for union recognition
Striking workers at the Amazon fulfilment centre in Coventry are making a bid for union recognition after reaching nearly 700 members.
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Amazon launches new scheme to help track counterfeit goods
Amazon has launched a new initiative aimed at helping retail stores identify and track marketplace counterfeits.
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Are driverless vehicles retail’s fulfilment future or science-fiction fad?
As we approach the middle of the 2020s, talk of advanced technology is rife as retailers look to digitally transform parts of their supply chain in line with the evolution of the industry
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Amazon and Tesco have 'best in class' supply chain strategies
In unprompted interviews with 50 retail executives, published in Supply Chain 2024, Sainsbury’s, B&M and Asda were also cited as businesses that leaders believe excel in supply chain and logistics
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Amazon launches initiative for sellers to expand across Europe
Amazon has launched an initiative to help sellers extend their business to all its UK and European marketplaces.
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Amazon strikes: hundreds of Coventry workers walk out over pay
Hundreds of Amazon workers have walked out in the first of two three-day strikes over pay.
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Amazon to close online shop Book Depository in latest bid to cut costs
Amazon is set to close its UK-based online store Book Depository at the end of April.
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Amazon workers announce six new strike dates
Amazon workers are set to strike again as the ongoing battle for a pay rise to £15 an hour and better working conditions continues.
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Amazon strikes to continue as workers dismiss pay offer ‘insult’
Amazon workers in the UK are due to take further strike action after the ecommerce giant offered a 50p-an-hour increase in base pay for warehouse workers.
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Amazon slashes an additional 9,000 jobs
Amazon is laying off 9,000 more employees, chief executive Andy Jassy revealed in a memo to staff.
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Exclusive: Amazon strikes could spread as workers reach out to more depots
The number of Amazon workers on strike has topped 500 at its Coventry depot and the GMB union said it expects this to grow as strikers reach out to workers at other warehouses across the UK.
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Ranking: The 50 most-loved retailers in the UK for 2023
Shoppers have had a tough time of late. Leaping from a global pandemic to an economic crisis has meant many have had to take a closer look at how much they spend and who they’re spending it with. For retailers, that means yet another obstacle course, forcing them to roll up their sleeves and navigate their customers through it.
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Five of the most disruptive moves in retail history
From the emergence of Amazon to the rise of subscription boxes, we take a look at five of the most disruptive moves in retail from the past 20 years ahead of next week’s live virtual discussion Disrupt or be disrupted: the retailers succeeding in a permacrisis
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Ranking: Meet the 30 UK retailers forecast to dominate ecommerce
A new report draws on exclusive Retail Week analyst data to rank the country’s most successful ecommerce retailers by FY2022 predicted online sales. Discover who they are, how they’re winning and the strategies to follow their lead
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Union ‘determined to win’ first ever Amazon UK strike
Amazon workers staging the company’s first-ever UK strike are “determined to win” as they ask for better pay and working conditions, while GMB figures suggest strike action and refusal to negotiate is set to cost the company more than £2m.
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‘From automation to home working, Sainsbury’s changes highlight forces shaping retail’
Sainsbury’s disclosure this week of a raft of business changes affecting its Argos general merchandise division, and putting at risk 1,400 jobs, crystallised some big retail themes of the moment.
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Amazon workers strike for second time in ‘David and Goliath battle’ for better pay
Day two of the first-ever Amazon UK strike takes place today (February 28) as workers walk out in a bid for better pay.
