Tag: Amazon acquisitions

Amazon Moves to Cut Food Prices at Whole Foods Stores and Online

by Bob Ferrari | Apr 3, 2019 | Consumer Goods Focused Supply Chain, Food, Grocery and Natural Foods Retail supply chain, Online Customer Fulfillment, Retail Supply Chain, Service-centered Supply Chains | 0 |

The Supply Chain Matters blog reflects on this week’s move by Amazon – Whole Foods to once again lower prices in order to spur physical store and online sales growth.

Amazon’s Announced Acquisition of Ring- Supply Chain Matters Initial Viewpoint

by ferrariadmin | Feb 28, 2018 | Internet of Things, Online Customer Fulfillment, Retail Supply Chain, Service-centered Supply Chains, Transportation and Logistics | 0 |

Online retailer Amazon announced its intent to acquire video-based doorbell product provider Ring for a reported sum of $1 billion. The obvious question is why Amazon would be willing to invest such a considerable sum in a doorbell provider. The likely answer has a lot to do with the next iterations of online last-mile customer fulfillment along with the leveraging of Internet of Things enabled home and apartment devices.

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