Amazon.com said Thursday that it’s made huge progress this holiday season in freeing consumers from “wrap rage,” the challenge of cutting through thick plastic clamshell cases or dealing with a forest of wire ties to get at gifts. The No. 1 e-commerce company says it’s helping the environment in the process. Amazon (AMZN), which has been working for five years with big manufacturers under its Frustration-Free Packaging initiative,
Amazon.com (AMZN) said Thursday that it’s made huge progress this holiday season in freeing consumers from “wrap rage,” the challenge of cutting through thick plastic clamshell cases or dealing with a forest of wire ties to get at their gifts. The No. 1 e-commerce company says it’s helping the environment in the process. Amazon, which has been working for five years with big manufacturers under its Frustration-Free Packaging initiative, says it
The biggest online shopping destinations got bigger over the Thanksgiving-to-Cyber Monday holiday shopping period. So says a report issued Tuesday by ChannelAdvisor (ECOM), an e-commerce services company that also tracks sales at some of the Web’s largest companies. No. 1 e-tailer Amazon.com (AMZN) ended Cyber Monday with gross merchandise sales up 46% over the same day last year, says ChannelAdvisor. EBay (EBAY) saw gross merchandise sales rise