Amazon 's Biggest Selection Of Online Retail Products

Amazon.com has successfully managed to make its customers to feel that anything they could possibly want could be found on their website. Additionally, its products are marketed at a competitive price. Another important factor is their speedy delivery with their usage of UPS and FedEx (United States) and Royal Mail (United Kingdom). The company also caters for people that prefer online shopping with extra services such as Amazon Prime - a service with a yearly payment, customers are eligible for free next day delivery. Even though Amazon.com is known to be an online seller of most things, it still excels in its original market of book selling. Evidence of such is

​Competition within the internet sales industry is fierce and innovation is the way internet retailers are looking to grab the top spot. Internet retailers such as Walmart are following in the path of competitors and building fulfillment centers left and right to allow for faster delivery to customers. Many internet retailers have explored the possibilities of drone delivery, using customers to deliver products to other customers on their way home, and allowing customers to pick up products out of lockers in stores so they don’t have to wait in line; these competitive strategies internet retailers are seeking to implement illustrate how far firms are willing to go to gain the upper-hand on one another (Forbes, 2012).

Luckily for Amazon.com, this company is one the largest retail sellers in the online world. Amazon is a company with a single enterprise that has risen to the top of the Most Innovative Companies List. It has been increased to this fortitude due to this company’s innovative ideas and the ideas for growth for their consumers as well. As technology had changed, so did Amazon by offering Prime which was a membership that could be purchased to allow the consumer to acquire items faster and receive the products more quickly.

In the process of developing its network to support its services, Amazon.com has built out an infrastructure that includes 145 warehouses around the world (84 in the United States, 29 in Europe, 4 in Canada, 10 in Japan, 15 in China and seven in India) that together account for more than 40 million square feet of space. Additionally, Amazon has made significant investments in material handling systems, including the acquisition of Kiva Systems for $775 million in 2012, which is working now as an Amazon subsidiary designing robots, developing software and other hardware that has been used in the distribution facilities of companies such as The Gap, Office Depot, and Staples (Lieb, 2014).

Amazon is the world’s largest online retailer that was launched in 1995 (Rouse, 2014). Amazon was mainly a book selling company that has enlarged its’ business by selling a variety of goods. The company sells all types of technology devices such as cell phones, games, televisions, movies, cameras, computers,

Amazon focuses on global reach, putting customer first,, and extensive selection of products through its vision which is “To be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online” (Gregory 2016).

Amazon is using different operating models to provide products and service to customers. There are three distinct models that Amazon.com offers, each with a different supply chain. The three models are Amazon.com as seller, Amazon.com as intermediary, and Amazon.com as full-service e- commerce provider.

Internet Research. 2005, Vol. 15 Issue 3, p335-352. 18p that consists of seven focus groups from different parts of the country tried finding about the perception of consumers on the concept of online grocery. The research indicated some positive and some negative beliefs, which were remarkably congruent across groups. In the minds of consumers, while the concept has advantages of convenience, price and product range. Disadvantages, such as the loss of the recreational aspect of grocery shopping could act as mental barriers where one bad experience can result in permanent disapproval of the

Founded in 1995, Amazon.com Inc. is one of the leading e-commerce platforms, with over $74.45bn (Statistica 2013) in worldwide revenues, 132,600 employees as of June 2014 as well as operating within 220 countries. Not only does it operate as an e-commerce website, trading millions of products, but also manufactures its own products such as the Kindle e-reader which has over 73.7% market share (Statistica 2013); Amazon Fire smartphones; various games through Amazon Game Studios as well as providing a video streaming service similar to that of Netflix. The Seattle based company also implements vast amounts of information technologies within its processes and operations, from its products through to how it provides its services. Its e-readers and smart phones are prime examples of the information technology used by the company, however as of December 2014, Amazon has implemented robot workers within 10 of its 109 shipping centres around the globe in order to move heavy merchandise (Griffiths, S 2014) while at the same time testing delivery drones within the UK so that parcels may be delivered by air. Five emerging technologies have arisen to have substantial practical uses within the company: Autonomous vehicles; holographic displays; scent technologies; the internet of things; and immersive virtual reality technologies. Each of these has its own potential applications which would be beneficial within various parts of the organisation as well as their own

Amazon currently has the objective to form a strategic move focused on growing business with UPS, U.S. Postal Service, FedEx, and obtain better prices for shipping. Bezos has given a statement clarifying that Amazon is creating a delivery network that added to—and did not replace—those of FedEx, UPS, and the U.S. Postal Service. In an interview he said, “It’s not that we are trying to take over. No, in fact what we want … Well, we’d always like better prices” He then completed his statement with, “We will take all the capacity that the U.S. Postal Service can give us and that UPS can give us and we still need to supplement it. So we’re not cutting back. We are growing our business with UPS. We’re growing our business with the U.S. Postal Service.” It is hard to enter an existing market but Amazon plans to maximize the market share it currently captures. To ensure this, they are Leasing 20 Boeing 767s from Air Transport Services Group this march. Amazon has negotiated an option to buy nearly 20 percent of the company. Dave Clark, Amazon’s senior vice president for worldwide operations, stated, “We’re excited to supplement our existing delivery network with a great new provider, ATSG, by adding 20 planes to ensure air cargo capacity to support one- and two-day delivery.” In an attempt to facilitate their shipping routes they have also leased 20 more jets from Atlas Air, an air cargo company based in N.Y. and purchased 4,000

Amazon continues to grow, expand, and improve the goods and services the company provides through strategic mergers and acquisitions. In recent years Amazon has focused on acquiring a variety of companies that bring with them technologies from fields such as: robotics, education, voice recognition, and e-reader displays. One of Amazon’s most significant recent acquisitions came in March 2012 when Amazon purchased Kiva Systems, a Massachusetts based robotics company. The deal worth $775 million dollars was made in hopes that Amazon will be able to improve profit margins though the use of the robotic packing system produced by Kiva System’s. The robotics created by Kiva allows companies to manage inventory and streamline the order

When dealing with time, cost and scope, Amazon feels that the drone will potentially cut down cost while providing customers within a ten mile radius of an Amazon warehouse speedy delivery. This all sounds like a great idea but because of the threat of competitive advantage with this issue, these drones don’t register under a good business deal. Amazon has yet to create a drone that can withstand all weather conditions. Just like Chicago many other states have long winters and great snow accumulation. Drones however can’t handle heavy precipitation let alone sleet or snow. Under drastic weather conditions, the drone sensors would be obscured.

In this advanced era, we, the consumers, want a Smartphone that keeps surprising us with new and unique features that helps in enriching and improving our Smartphone experience. Is it any surprise that Amazon wanted a taste of the market, now that it has conquered the digital retail market?

Amazon is the big online shopping conglomerate we know today, which is known for their presence in the online shopping scene. They started with Jeff Bezos’ leadership, growing to where they are today. Amazon is a powerful company, however it is not without its problems. The company’s problems regard its strategies with growth, compared to Patagonia, leading them towards unsustainable results (LMPGS). To bring forth my proposal, I will talk about the narrative of Amazon’s start. Also, the definition of sustainability and why it’s relevant to the proposal at hand. Thirdly, a counter-argument will be brought forth on a practice used by companies that counteract sustainability. The proposal to change practices, such as the waste of packages, and the communication with suppliers. Amazon could be made more sustainable by studying other, less growth-oriented companies.

Supermarket e-commerce stores that have altered business practice grow very fast. The popularity of online supermarket increases every year. Keynote’s study (as cited in Hand, Riley, Harris, Singh, and Rettie, 2009, p. 1205) explain that in 2006, the percentage of online supermarkets are higher approximately 35% than previous year. It could be that customers will shop online only in the future if the popularity of traditional stores go down. In addition, many supermarkets such as Walmart, Coles, and Giant are starting to build e-commerce. Online supermarket grow