Matt Rice, director of investigations at Mercy for Animals, watches a video taken with a hidden camera of intentional animal torture at Hudson Valley Foie Gras in New York _ a foie grass supplier to Seattle-based online retail giant Amazon.com _ at a news conference in Seattle Wednesday, June 12, 2013. Mercy for Animals is calling on Amazon to immediately end the sale of foie gras. The video footage shows workers violently grabbing ducks by their wings and necks and then shoving metal pipes down their throats to force-feed them and produce diseased, fatty livers known as foie gras.
Amazon.com Inc is planning a major roll-out of an online grocery business that it has been quietly developing for years, targeting one of the largest retail sectors yet to be upended by e-commerce, according to two people familiar with the situation.
While food is a low-margin business, Amazon could outperform similar online grocery services by delivering orders for higher-margin items like electronics at the same time.
One of the people familiar with AmazonFresh's expansion plans said new warehouses will have refrigerated areas for food, but also space nearby to store up to one million general merchandise products, in some cases.
The company has been testing AmazonFresh in its hometown of Seattle for at least five years, delivering fresh produce such as eggs, strawberries and meat with its own fleet of trucks.
Amazon is now planning to expand its grocery business outside Seattle for the first time, starting with Los Angeles as early as this week and the San Francisco Bay Area later this year, according to the two people who were not authorized to speak publicly.
Amazon.com has announced the launch of its official India portal, Amazon.in. Amazon had previously launched Junglee.com in India which basically directs buyers to the seller's website, while Amazon.in is the ecommerce giant's own marketplace for India.
Our vision, at Amazon, is to be Earth's most customer centric company; to build a place where people can come to find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. With Amazon.in, we endeavor to build that same destination in India by giving customers more of what they want - vast selection, low prices, fast and reliable delivery, and a trusted and convenient experience, said Greg Greeley, Vice President of International Expansion at Amazon.com in press release. We're excited to get started in India and we will relentlessly focus on raising the bar for customer experience in India.
Amazon's India service offerings in two categories - Books and Movies & TV - but the categories such as mobiles, cameras etc will be added to the website soon in the coming weeks.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos demonstrates the Kindle Paperwhite during Amazon's Kindle Fire event in Santa Monica, California in this September 6, 2012, file photo. Amazon.com Inc is planning a major roll-out of an online grocery business that it has been quietly developing for years, targeting one of the largest retail sectors yet to be upended by e-commerce, according to two people familiar with the situation.
The proposed Amazon corporate headquarters in Seattle, Washington, is pictured in this artist's rendering courtesy of NBBJ. While much of corporate America is retrenching on the real estate front, the four most influential technology companies in America are each planning headquarters that could win a Pritzker Architecture Prize for hubris. Amazon.com this week revealed plans for three verdant bubbles in downtown Seattle, joining Apple's circular "spaceship," Facebook's Frank Gehry-designed open-office complex and a new Googleplex on the list of planned trophy offices.
