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Amazon opens its checkout-free store 'Amazon Go' on 22 January in Seattle; no more waiting in queues to pay for goods
•The convenience-style store opened to Amazon employees on 5 December, 2016 in a test phase.
Tech giants like Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet to only get bigger, claims Wall Street analyst
•After reporting their results, Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet and Intel added nearly $140 billion to their already massive combined market value on Friday.
US shoppers prefer shopping groceries from local stores instead of online retail stores
•“The fact that few people want online grocery shopping now doesn’t mean they won’t want it tomorrow,” Wolf said.
Walmart is working with Google on voice-activated shopping to take on Amazon
•Walmart said it is working with Google to offer hundreds of thousands of items from laundry detergent to Legos for voice shopping through Google Assistant.
Amazon to cut prices on a range of popular goods after Whole Foods acquisition
•Amazon.com Inc said it will cut prices on a range of popular goods as it completes its acquisition of Whole Foods Market Inc.
Donald Trump criticises global retailer Amazon.com over taxes and jobs
•US President Donald Trump criticized Amazon.com on Twitter over taxes and jobs and accused the retailer of hurting US localities and causing job losses.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos becomes world's richest person with net worth of $90.5 billion
•Amazon founder Jeff Bezos became the world's richest person, as a jump in the share price of the US tech giant enabled him to overtake Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Forbes magazine estimated
Despite increasing criticism for antitrust practices, Amazon increases spending on lobbying
Fp Archives •In the second quarter of this year, Amazon paid lobbying megafirm Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld $80,000 to lobby, primarily focused on the Marketplace Fairness Act, a bill that would allow state government to collect sales tax from online retailers.
US FTC to probe allegations of Amazon misleading customers over pricing discounts
Fp Archives •An analysis found that in 61 percent of products with reference prices, Amazon's reference prices were higher than it had sold the same product
Retail workers union opposing the purchase of Whole Foods by Amazon
Fp Archives •Amazon has said previously that it has no plans to automate the jobs of Whole Foods cashiers and plans no job cuts.
