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Amazon Hikes Prime Membership Fees In The US

Amazon.com Inc said it was raising the price of its annual US Prime subscriptions by 17%, as it looks to offset higher costs for shipping and wag...

Visa's Amazon Spat Shows Power Is Shifting To Retailers In Fee Battle

Amazon.com Inc's latest spat with Visa shows big retailers, armed with a growing array of payment options, are gaining the upper hand in their power strugg...

Amazon To Stop Accepting Visa's UK-Issued Credit Cards Over High Fees

Amazon.com has announced it plans to stop accepting Visa credit cards issued in the United Kingdom from next year, due to the high fees charged by the paym...

Amazon Workers In Germany To Strike For Better Pay

Workers at some Amazon warehouses in Germany began strike action on Monday, services sector union Verdi said, as part of a long-running battle with the US...

Amazon To Offer insurance To Businesses In The UK: Broker

Amazon.com Inc is to start offering insurance to small and medium-sized UK business customers, the technology giant's first foray into business insurance i...

Britain's Co-op Announces Partnership With Amazon

UK's Co-op has announced plans to accelerate its e-commerce strategy through a new partnership with Amazon and step-up robot deliveries in cooperation...

Battle Lines Being Drawn As Amazon Moves On Bricks and Mortar Retailers: Analysis

With Amazon eyeing its entry into the bricks and mortar retail market in the US, Craig Summers, UK managing director, Manhattan Associates examines what th...

Amazon Hikes Starting Pay To $18 An Hour

Amazon.com Inc has increased its average starting wage in the United States to more than $18 an hour and plans to hire another 125,000 warehouse and transp...