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Amazon is offering employees a start-up grant of 10,000 dollars plus three months' paid salary to make the leap towards becoming self-employed couriers – delivering Amazon parcels, of course.

Belgium's biggest supermarket chain, Colruyt, is starting a test with home deliveries in Brussels. So far, the discounter only offered click-and-collect. The trial should demonstrate whether the service is "acceptable for customers and sustainable for us".

Zalando is introducing shipping costs in Ireland, Spain and the United Kingdom, following an earlier test in Italy. This seems to mark the end of the free era, even though the German company says there are no plans to further expand the measure.

Asos will both extend its return policy and make it stricter: from now on, customers will be able to send back their items 45 days after the initial purchase, but they won't get their money back. The British online fashion store will also respond more strongly to misuse.

Belgian supermarket chain Delhaize is to leave its headquarters in Brussels next year, after a 149 year presence in the Belgian capital. The company will move to Asse, just outside of the Brussels Region.

Amazon continues to amaze: in an attempt to reduce costs in the 'last mile', the e-commerce giant is looking into the possibility of using public transport to deliver its parcels. Or how even one of the world's most advanced companies sometimes can benefit of old-fashioned solutions...

Amazon is releasing a self-propelled delivery robot: the Amazon Scout is a small vehicle of about knee-height and it will soon be rolling around in a Washington neighbourhood, making home deliveries to Prime members.