Target Corp, aiming to one-up retail rivals during the upcoming U.S. holiday shopping season, said on Tuesday it was adding more delivery and pickup options for online shoppers to have items shipped to their homes or ready for quick pick-up at local stores. The Minneapolis-based retailer will offer free two-day shipping on hundreds of thousands of items from Nov. 1 to Dec. 22 with no order minimum or membership required. Target had announced the shipping service in March.

Chennai: Of the USD 2.3 billion gross merchandise value (GMV) garnered during the five-day online festive season sales, Flipkart cornered a higher market share of 51 per cent, followed by Amazon at 32 per cent.

As per the study done by RedSeer Consulting on the sales, both Flipkart and Amazon together took away a large slice of the market pie as big as 83 per cent.

Amazon won’t say a word about where it plans to put its much-hyped second headquarters. Officials in the 20 cities and regions named as finalists say that they don’t know anything — and that even if they did, they wouldn’t share it publicly.

But that hasn’t stopped investors, economic officials and developers from trying to reverse engineer the HQ2 search, to understand what a company seen as embodying the future wants and needs, and what local governments should do to be part of that future.

Amazon on Tuesday announced a new investment of $10 million in Closed Loop Fund (CLF) to support recycling infrastructure in the US aimed at cutting the amount of waste treated at landfills.

Amazon said its investment will increase the availability of curbside recycling for three million homes in communities across the country, making it easier for customers to recycle and further develop end markets for recycled commodities, Xinhua reported.

Day four of Amazon’s Great Indian Festival sale has plenty of discounts lined up across televisions, washing machines and laptops.

TCL (49) 4K Ultra HD Smart LED TV see a discount of 40 % to Rs. 29,990 from the earlier price of from Rs 49,990. Buyers also get no cost EMI up to 9 months starting Rs 3333 per month.

Bengaluru: After less than two days into the festive season sale, India’s top online retailers Flipkart and Amazon have claimed record-breaking numbers and indicated that their sales during the first two days have already surpassed the overall sales that they generated during the entire five-day sale last year.

Bengaluru: India’s biggest online retailers Flipkart and Amazon are pulling out all the stops to woo top smartphone brands such as Apple, Samsung, Xiaomi and Huawei to exclusively sell their wares on their online marketplaces, as they joust for an edge during the Diwali shopping season.

Amazon Pay India, the online payment business of e-commerce giant Amazon, has received fresh funding of Rs 590 crore, according to the Registrar of Companies (RoC) documents, which was sourced by FE from business intelligence platform Paper.vc. Fresh funds have been infused by US-based parent Amazon.com and Singapore-based Amazon Corporate Holdings. Prior to this in July, the e-tailer had infused Rs 230 crore in the payments business.

E-commerce firm Amazon India is focusing on exclusive tie-ups with brands across categories to drive sales this festive season, Manish Tiwary, VP, category management, told FE. “Festive season is the best time to acquire new customers as well as retain the existing ones. Be it in categories such as mobile where we have an exclusive deal with Xiaomi to sell Redmi 6A,

E-commerce major Amazon is confident of clocking strong growth this festive season in India, driven by availability of large selection of products and big brands as well as new customers coming onto its platform, especially from tier II and III towns.

Amazon India, which competes head-on with rival Flipkart, will kick off its festive sale from October 10-15, lining up new launches across various categories and dishing out discount offers to woo Indian shoppers.

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