Amazon Online Marketplace
An Amazon Online Marketplace is an online 3rd-party retailer service within Amazon Online Retail Service (provided by Amazon.com).
- Context:
- It is supported by an Amazon Online Product Search Service.
- It can support an Amazon Affiliate Program.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Online Reputation System, Product Review, Amazon.com Recommender.
References
2014
- Colin Lewis. (2014). “Robots Are Starting to Make Offshoring Less Attractive.” In: HBR Blog
- QUOTE: In March 2012, Amazon announced the $775 million cash acquisition of Kiva Systems, a warehouse automation robotics company. By October 2013, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos noted that they had “deployed 1,382 Kiva robots in three Fulfillment Centers.” Yet Amazon continues to significantly grow its number of employees in these fulfillment centers, adding 20,000 full-time employees in the U.S. last year. This year, when the company announced that it was hiring an additional 2,500 full time U.S. fulfillment staff, it emphasized that the jobs had a 30 percent pay premium over traditional retail jobs. Technology done well doesn’t just replace workers, but makes them more productive.
2013
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com#Retail_goods
- Amazon product lines include books, music CDs, videotapes and DVDs, software, consumer electronics, kitchen items, tools, lawn and garden items, toys & games, baby products, apparel, sporting goods, gourmet food, jewelry, watches, health and personal-care items, beauty products, musical instruments, clothing, industrial & scientific supplies, and groceries.
The company launched amazon.com Auctions, a web auctions service, in March 1999. However, it failed to chip away at the large market share of the industry pioneer, eBay. Later, the company launched a fixed-price marketplace business, zShops, in September 1999, and the now defunct partnership with Sotheby's, called Sothebys.amazon.com, in November. Auctions and zShops evolved into Amazon Marketplace, a service launched in November 2000 that let customers sell used books, CDs, DVDs, and other products alongside new items. Today, Amazon Marketplace's main rival is eBay's Half.com service.
In August 2007, Amazon announced AmazonFresh, a grocery service offering perishable and nonperishable foods. Customers can have orders delivered to their homes at dawn or during a specified daytime window. Delivery was initially restricted to residents of Mercer Island, Washington, and was later expanded to several ZIP codes in Seattle proper.[1] AmazonFresh also operated pick-up locations in the suburbs of Bellevue and Kirkland from summer 2007 through early 2008.
In 2012, Amazon announced Vine.com for buying green products, including groceries, household items and apparel.[2] It is part of Quidsi, the company that Amazon bought in 2010 that also runs the sites Diapers.com (baby), Wag.com (pets) and YoYo.com (toys). Amazon also owns other e-commerce sites like Zappos.com, Shopbop.com and Woot.
Amazon's Subscribe & Save program offers a discounted price on an item (usually sold in bulk), free shipping on every Subscribe & Save shipment, and automatic shipment of the item every one, two, three, or six months.[3]
- Amazon product lines include books, music CDs, videotapes and DVDs, software, consumer electronics, kitchen items, tools, lawn and garden items, toys & games, baby products, apparel, sporting goods, gourmet food, jewelry, watches, health and personal-care items, beauty products, musical instruments, clothing, industrial & scientific supplies, and groceries.
- ↑ Arrington, Michael (August 1, 2007). "Remember Webvan? So Does Amazon". TechCrunch.
- ↑ CLAIRE CAIN MILLER (September 26, 2012). "Amazon Starts a Shopping Site for the Environmental Crowd". The New York Times. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/26/amazon-starts-a-shopping-site-for-the-environmental-crowd/?smid=tw-nytimesbits&seid=auto. Retrieved October 9, 2012.
- ↑ "Amazon.com Subscribe & Save". Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/gp/subscribe-and-save/details/index.html. Retrieved July 21, 2011.