Amazon News & Updates
Last updated October 26, 2026
Amazon filed a WARN notice to lay off 616 workers at its Homestead, Florida warehouse, which it plans to close temporarily for renovations
Amazon’s plan to reduce USPS volume by 20% could raise shipping costs and slow delivery times for rural customers and small businesses
Walmart is storing third-party marketplace items in store backrooms as it and Amazon increasingly borrow each other’s core strategies
Over 50 Amazon delivery drivers in Tennessee are owed unpaid wages after their employer suddenly shut down with no notice
Amazon Autos now sells Kia, Mazda, Subaru, Chevrolet, and Jeep
Unsealed court documents prove Amazon was aware of its fixed-pricing tactics
#274 – X Money will destroy the world, UPS is RFID everywhere, & Amazon knew it was price-fixing
MacKenzie Scott has donated $26 billion since 2019 yet is still worth $42.7 billion because Amazon shares have outpaced her giving
Amazon sued a Kazakhstan-based scam ring that used fake police reports to fraudulently obtain $4M in refunds for GPUs and laptops
Unsealed court documents show Amazon suppressed sellers’ Buy Box access when their products were priced lower on competing sites
Bath & Body Works CEO says it’s difficult to gain market share without Amazon and began selling on the platform in February
An internal Amazon document warns that AI is accelerating tool duplication inside the company faster than teams can clean it up
Former Amazon employees filed a class-action lawsuit alleging the company systematically underpaid women by misclassifying their jobs
A class-action lawsuit accuses Amazon of intentionally degrading early Fire TV Stick devices to push consumers into buying new ones
Amazon opens its first smart warehouse in Shenzhen to cut Chinese merchant storage costs by 45% as Temu and Shein gain ground
Amazon is acquiring Globalstar and signing an agreement with Apple to power satellite features on iPhone and Apple Watch
Neato raises $25M to expand its 2P e-commerce accelerator model beyond Amazon into additional marketplaces
Amazon Autos expands to Chevrolet, Jeep, Kia, Mazda, and Subaru as its new car buying service grows to 130+ cities
OpenAI’s revenue chief says Microsoft has “limited our ability” to reach enterprise clients and touts Amazon as the path forward
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