I like clouds. Aside from their fluffiness, they provide temporary shade from the sun, life-sustaining water to our planet, and storage for our documents, photos, music, and videos. That last part refers to cloud storage, of course; it seems as though more and more companies are allowing us to store our digital treasures on their [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Amazon’
The Rogue Shopper: Amazon’s Newest Service is Cloudy With a Chance of Music
Posted in General News / Technology, Uncategorized, tagged Amazon, Amazon Cloud Drive and Player, computing clouds, Rogue Shopper on Ecommerce Junkie on March 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
L.L. Bean Makes Free Shipping Standard
Posted in Ecommerce, Online Shopping, Retail, tagged Amazon, LL Bean, LL Bean free shipping, Overstock, The E-tailing Group, Zappos on March 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks to mostly rave reviews from its customers, L.L. Bean has announced that it is now making free shipping standard on all orders to U.S. and Canadian consumers. The outdoor gear and apparel retailer becomes the latest in a long line of merchants offering free shipping as an additional enticement for shoppers. The policy officially [...]
February 2011 Junkie Winner: Amazon
Posted in Ecommerce, Junkie Award Winner, Online Sales Taxes, Online Shopping, tagged ACLU, Amazon, Amazon and North Carolina, internet taxation, Junkie Award winner, Online Sales Taxes on March 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Our February 2011 Junkie award recipient isn’t a small up and coming operation like some of our previous winners have been. In fact, you know the name very well—Amazon.com has been a rock in the e-commerce industry for about as long as online shopping has been around. But neither Amazon’s pedigree nor its reputation is [...]
Worst-case Texas Scenario Realized for Amazon
Posted in Online Sales Taxes, Uncategorized, tagged Amazon, Amazon and state of Texas, Amazon online sales tax, internet taxation, Online Sales Taxes on February 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We just reported on Amazon and the online sales tax issue in North Carolina on Friday but it appears that there’s another new development in one of e-commerce’s hottest topics now in Texas. Following through on repeated threats that it has made in Texas (and elsewhere) during the dialogue over internet taxes, Amazon has announced [...]
Amazon Picks up Another Tax Win in North Carolina
Posted in Online Sales Taxes, tagged ACLU, Amazon, North Carolina Department of Revenue, North Carolina online sales tax on February 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s getting intense out there on the internet taxation battlefield! While more states across the country mull online sales taxes here in 2011, Amazon has scored a victory in its ongoing face-off with the state of North Carolina over its proposed internet tax with some help from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Thanks to [...]
Trio of Big Retailers Divorce Amazon Marketplace
Posted in Ecommerce, tagged Amazon, Amazon Marketplace, Buy.com, Gap, Macy's on February 8, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Online shoppers who have grown accustomed to using Amazon.com to shop for and compare prices on products from the likes of Macy’s, Gap, and Buy.com have probably started wondering what happened to those products lately. The three big name merchants had all partnered with Amazon as third-party sellers through Amazon’s Marketplace offering at one time [...]
Dell, QVC Top Compuware’s Annual Holiday Web and Mobile Performers Lists
Posted in Ecommerce, Online Shopping, Retail, tagged Amazon, Compuware, Dell, Gomez Performance Satisfaction Index, mobile shopping trends, Newegg, Office Depot, QVC, Sears, web shopping trends, Williams and Sonoma on January 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A pair of very familiar names sit atop an annual index that ranks the top web and mobile companies based on their 2010 holiday season performance and offerings. Dell and QVC were the cream of the crop in the web and mobile sectors respectively, earning the highest performance satisfaction scores during the recent holiday push, [...]



