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Next up for disruption: the grocery business
The logistics of "last mile" food delivery and the thin margins in the grocery business delayed the inevitable, but capital is finally pouring into online grocery shopping.
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Amazon launches Amazon Dash for delivery of groceries, household items
Amazon.com Inc launched a new product named Amazon Dash on Friday that allows the user to add groceries and household goods to their shopping lists using the company's AmazonFresh service. A black-and-white hand-held wand-shaped remote-control features a microphone, speaker as well as a bar-code reader and links directly to the user's AmazonFresh account.
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Hawaii Just Became the First State to BAN This Everyday Shopping Item
Plastic trash has always been a huge environmental problem, especially when the ocean is involved. But few states have seen the impact of maritime pollution quite like Hawaii. Now, Hawaii has become the first state to officially implement a ban on plastic bags at checkout counters. "Being a marine state, perhaps, we are exposed more directly to the impacts of plastic pollution and the damage it does to our environment," Sierra Club of Hawaii director Robert Harris, said in 2012.
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Amazon Dash: Shopping of the Future or Just Another Way to Waste Money?
Amazon has announced a new device and service called Dash. It is designed to go with their AmazonFresh service and allows you to add items to your Amazon shopping list by speaking their names or scanning bar codes. In Amazon's optimistic marketing-speak, Dash let's "Every member of the family [...] conveniently refill and restock your home's everyday essentials, and have fun doing it." Bar code scanner hooked up to your credit card? No problem!
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If you buy a scale on Amazon, the site may think you’re a drug dealer
People use small digital scales for all sorts of things. Measuring cooking ingredients, for instance. Jewelry makers and sellers use them. There are plenty of legal uses for mini digital scales. Amazon’s customers appear to be purchasing mini scales for more scandalous reasons than measuring flour or gemstones. As a Reddit user discovered, Amazon will recommend drug-related paraphernalia if a shopper purchases a small digital scale.
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Pay with your blood: Vein scanning technology will end lengthy queues
Paying for items using the veins in your hand and our hard-coded biometrics has become a reality, with hand-scanned purchases being made. By simply moving your hand over a scanner it is able to detect your identity and connect with your payment details to allow you to buy items without having to wait for a card to be verified or even entering a pin number.
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When ‘Liking’ a Brand Online Voids the Right to Sue
Might downloading a 50-cent coupon for Cheerios cost you legal rights? General Mills, the maker of cereals like Cheerios and Chex as well as brands like Bisquick and Betty Crocker, has quietly added language to its website to alert consumers that they give up their right to sue the company if they download coupons, “join” it in online communities like Facebook, enter a company-sponsored sweepstakes or contest or interact with it in a variety of other ways.
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You're not crazy, those cereal box characters are definitely staring at you
Next time you walk down the cereal aisle, check to see if the characters on the boxes are staring back at you. According to a new study by researchers at Cornell University's Food and Brand Lab and Yale University, Captain Crunch, Tony the Tiger and the Trix rabbit are all trying to make eye contact.
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SkyMall loses its captive audience
With passengers absorbed in their electronics, the catalog known for peddling kitschy items aims to find a digital strategy
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From Retail Palace to Zombie Mall: How Efficiency Killed the Department Store
The once-vibrant shopping mall has one foot in the grave these days. About 20 percent of the 2,000 largest U.S. malls were failing in 2008, and by 2012, only 1,513 remained in operation. Current numbers predict more than 200 existing big malls will collapse in the next 10 years.
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There Are Some Truly Extraordinary Things For Sale On Alibaba
Alibaba isn't a typical e-commerce venture. To truly understand the company, you need to peruse the vast array of incredible items available for sale on the site. Business Insider dug deep through Alibaba's digital shelves to identify some of the wonderful wares the site has to offer.
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Whole Foods thinks it’s too expensive
Competition in natural and organic groceries has intensified in the US, and it’s hurting the company that has long dominated that business—Whole Foods Market. The high-end supermarket chain reported earnings overnight, which weren’t terrible, but it also lowered its forecast for the year ahead, and that has freaked investors. Shares are down by about 17% in the pre-market this morning.
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Recall That Ice Cream Truck Song? We Have Unpleasant News For You
"Nigger Love A Watermelon Ha! Ha! Ha!" merits the distinction of the most racist song title in America. Released in March 1916 by Columbia Records, it was written by actor Harry C. Browne and played on the familiar depiction of black people as mindless beasts of burden greedily devouring slices of watermelon.
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Wal-Mart is hurting for shoppers
U.S. consumers aren't buying as much from Wal-Mart lately, and neither are investors. The retail king's used the "blame it on the weather" excuse to explain its lackluster first quarter, but Wall Street viewed it with the same skepticism as the dog (or Internet virus) eating a kids' homework.
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Do you know what's going in your Amazon shopping cart?
A system of pooling supposedly identical merchandise at Amazon.com's warehouses provides flexibility for faster shipping. But in some cases it has led to mix-ups between counterfeit and authentic products.
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Bill would create new protection for shoppers who write online reviews
Some bills that ordinarily might generate some controversy fly through the Legislature with nary a vote against them. Consider AB 2365 by Assembly Speaker Emeritus John A. Pérez (D-Los Angeles). Introduced in February, it has encountered almost no opposition. The bill seeks to provide some new legal protection for consumers who offer online opinions or comments.
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What Shopping Will Look Like in the Future
One of America's favorite pastimes is changing rapidly. When it comes to shopping, more Americans are skipping the stores and pulling out their smartphones and tablets. Still, there's more on the horizon for shopping than just point-and-clicking.
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Why I’m ditching my Amazon account
By essentially banishing many Hachette titles from its stock, Amazon, which ordinarily puts its customers first, has put them last. So I'm taking my business elsewhere.
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The Walmart-Free City
In October, the city council of Portland, Oregon, in between updating the payroll system for the police honor guard and changing the duties of the golf advisory committee, adopted a resolution banning Walmart—and Walmart alone— from the city’s investment portfolio. The resolution, unanimously approved, cited an anonymous executive who was quoted in Charles Fishman’s 2006 book, “The Wal-Mart Effect,” saying, “They have killed free-market capitalism in America.”
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