Amazon just announced 77 grads from its tech training program. Not announced: how many started, how many entered this year. Great for the grads, but is it significant?#Amazon #training #workforce

Amazon’s WorkingWell just seems like an attempt to do standard machine maintenance on humans. #Amazon #warehouse #healthcare https://t.co/KJ7Pm82IkE via @Verge

For those needing light entertainment before the Biden show, I will be talking about my book at 7.30, looking primarily to the future for Amazon #Amazon #innovationculture #ecommerce

Anyone know anything about dual membership in Prime and Walmart+?

Bezos announced in the Amazon shareholder letter that there are 200m Prime members worldwide - up 50m from 2019. CIRP says 147m in US - where there are 128m households (per Census). #Amazon #ecommerce #bezos #walmart

More on the Amazon Effect and department store sales: down form $20bn in 2001 to $11bn pre-COVID #amazon #retail https://t.co/oLkLzCS9AX #FRED @stlouisfed

My book Behemoth, Amazon Rising is featured at Business Class News - review plus podcast. Check it out. #Amazon #ecommerce #AmazonRising

Massive increase in the number of third party sellers on Amazon, continues Amazon's strategic shift away from retail and towards managing the Marketplace #Amazon #ecommerce #Amazonmarketplace.

Some useful free powerpoint graphics

Andy Jassy may be the continuity candidate following in Jeff Bezos's footsteps, but it's not all wine and roses in Amazonia. Here are 9 key strategic challenges facing the new leadership at Amazon.#Amazon #Bezos #Jassy #strategy

Dean Maciuba highlighted an Adobe ecommerce report covering the holidays. Keys: shipping up 12% to $12.50/order; average order $167; curbside pickup c.25% of orders. Lots of other goodies. #ecommerce #shipping #logistics #Amazon

So is $10 billion annual growth a) sustainable b) dominant and c) enough to feed the Amazon growth machine?#AWS #Amazon

AWS: "It took us 123 months to grow to a $10 billion business, it took us 23 months to go from $10 billion to $20 billion, 13 months from $20 billion to $30 billion, and then 12 months from $30 billion to $40 billion." - Andy Jassy. https://t.co/ywmCMYtKlK #AWS #Amazon

The chart makes the huge gap between prime and Walmart+ totally clar #Amazon #AmazonPrime #Walmart

More evidence that Walmart+ is no threat to Prime #AmazonPrime #Amazon #Walmart+

AWS suspension of Parler is huge. AWS is the leading internet infrastructure manager. It's like saying Parler cannot use the public bus network. I'm happy they are on foot, but it's a massive step for AWS.#AWS #parlershutdown

CEO World published my article on why Amazon has no competitive advantage in groceries, and this will likely turn out badly. #Amazon #ecommerce #groceries

Albertson's shift to giggers for delivery was inevitable, but just the start. Grocery delivery is too expensive for a free service. #groceries #gigeconomy

https://t.co/pZ2mHsqNHI This is the first serious effort to unionize any unit within Amazon in the US since a failed effort in 2014. In Alabama! Other recent organized labor actions include a strike in Germany and heavy pressure over COVID-19 issues in Staten Island.

German strikes suggest that Amazon will find it hard to export its antiunion model.