Amazon

Amazon has launched a special page on its website, filled with videos of various products and brands that can be purchased immediately. The new feature is called Amazon Live.

Amazon has let go several employees with immediate effect, because of their unauthorised sharing of customer data with a third party.

What will 2020 bring for the retail sector? Growing tensions between retailers and their suppliers, fears EuroCommerce director-general Christian Verschueren. He hopes that the new European Commission will put a strong stop to increasing protectionism.

Retail giants Amazon and Walmart wage war on each other almost everywhere on the planet, including the country with the world's second largest population, India. Amazon has just signed a deal with India's second biggest retailer, after Walmart acquired online market leader Flipkart.

Forget FedEx or UPS: Amazon is the world's largest logistics company. As a result of this focus, Amazon is also the quickest parcel delivery company in the United States.

British retailer Tesco launches a new and paying loyalty scheme, Real does the same thing in Germany, and Casino already did the same in France. Belgian Delhaize is also experimenting with innovative concepts: are traditional retailers going Amazon Prime-style?

Amazon has confirmed that it will launch a new supermarket chain, beginning with a Los Angeles store that should open early next year - at the latest. With this new concept, the company is primarily hoping to seduce the average American.