Amazon.com is a publicly traded worldwide online retail company founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1995 in Seattle, Washington. The company originally began as an online bookstore as Bezos felt there was a high demand for literature, and books had a low price point and a huge selection of titles available in print. Technological innovation drives the growth of Amazon.com to offer customers more types of products, more conveniently and at lower prices. Since 1995, Amazon has significantly expanded its product selection, international retail websites, and worldwide network of fulfillment and customer service centers. Today, Amazon retail websites offer everything from toys and video games to MP3 downloads and collectible items (amazon.com, 2014). Amazons business model is fairly simple; to sell various products and goods online at an affordable cost to consumers. Amazon has managed to not only achieve this business model but they have also managed to consistently expand and become the largest online retailer to date. To keep up with global demand, Amazon had to expand its products and services offered while continuing to forecast consumer’s needs. “In 2000, Amazon.com began to offer its best-of-breed e-commerce platform to other retailers and to individual sellers. Today, hundreds of thousands of world-class retail brands and individual sellers increase their sales and reach new customers by leveraging the power of the Amazon.com e-commerce platform. Partners work with Amazon Services to power their e-commerce offerings from end-to-end, including technology services, merchandising, customer service, and order fulfillment. Other branded merchants leverage Amazon.com as an incremental sales channel for their new merchandise. Over 2 million third-party sellers participate in Amazon where they offer new, used, and…
Amazon is an online retailer however there have been talks and news articles of the company planning to open a warehouse store in New York City. However being an online only retailer means the company can meet any customer target and offer shopping to anyone. This removes travel time, travel costs and parking costs which appeal to more customers. This can also appeal to younger shoppers aged 16+ who are unable to drive and must pay out a large charge in travel fare. There is also a larger reach in the consumer area and they now have the ability to reach a worldwide target. Also being an online only business they can give specific and limited discounting to their products.…
Amazon.com is an organization that offers a broad range of services to consumers and is considered an online leader of pure-plays - pure online merchants. Amazon.com was founded in July of 1995 with a mission to fully utilize the Internet to make book buying fast, easy, and all in all, a very enjoyable experience. They currently have 29 million customers in 160 different countries, making Amazon.com one of the leading online merchants. It is rated third in business-to-consumer online revenue as of June 20, 2000. Amazon.com represents the ideal e-Commerce company. It was one of the first to demonstrate the potential for "virtual" upstarts and turned the market on end - even leading the "bricks and mortar" companies.…
Since Amazon.com is an internet only retailer and the customers consisting of people around the world, anyone with access to the Internet can type in Amazon.com into the web browser and start purchasing products they want. The only downfall is that the company cannot reach those who do not have access to the Internet because there are no…
Summarize arguments and efforts In tandem with the misogynistic tendencies of the Greeks, was the legend of the Amazons. For the Greeks, Amazons were a race of warrior women who lived somewhere on the edges of the civilized world, somewhere in the Black Sea region. While artistic renditions of Amazons show they have two breasts, the word Amazon means having no breasts. A legend developed that these women had their right breasts removed to aid in their use of the bow and arrow. Some of the myths regarding the Amazons may have some historical basis, and recent archaeological uncovering of burials leads many scholars to conclude that the Scythians, an actual historical tribe, exhibited much of the same characteristics as the Amazons. Amazons were…
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) with a +$100 billion market capitalization is a multinational electronic commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world's largest online retailer. Amazon has separate websites for the following countries: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, and China. It may also launch websites in Netherlands, Sweden, and India. It also provides international shipping to certain countries for some of its products. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com, Inc. in 1994, and the site went online in 1995. It is named after the Amazon River, one of the largest rivers in the world. Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, but soon diversified, selling DVDs, CDs, MP3 downloads, computer software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, and toys. Amazon uses the internet as the sole method for selling goods to its consumers. Amazon's competitors, such as Barnes and Noble, and Borders use brick and mortar as their main distribution channel. This method of using many store fronts is extremely costly. Stores such as Borders and Barnes and Noble have very high overheads because they pay premium rents to be in central locations, and must pay salaries to sales representatives. Amazon does not share this same high overhead, which gives Amazon a competitive advantage. This advantage is a result of the fact that Amazon's business model allows for a central distribution center in an area where the rent is low. As a result, they are able to sell their products for a…
In the 19th and 20th century, Latin America went through a huge period of progress when it came to gender norms and patriarchy. Prior to this time, the majority of households in Latin America had a very defined patriarchy, with men as protectors and providers. Women who could afford to stay at home usually did , caring for children and tending to the home. However, into the 20th century, we start to see more women not only getting educations, but also seeing the importance of education for their children. While it would be unfair to say that no women in previous centuries did this, it was definitely a lot less normal and more uncommon.…
Gender roles have changed with the times; women have worked to strip themselves of the house wife ideal too become independent working women. Though the way we see women now didn’t just happen overnight, it came from years and years of challenging gender ideals. That’s why to truly understand genders roles of women in modern day society we have to go back into the past and examine what really shaped gender and how we have come to see gender today. To answer those questions, we will look back at hunter gatherer and Native American society’s all the way through to World War I and the Cold war.…
Like sighting an endangered species in the Amazon Rain Forest, spotting acts of chivalry in today’s world are a rare sight. Perhaps its scarcity is due to the emerging power of feminism, or maybe the deterioration of classic manners. Whatever the cause, the decline of chivalry has taken a toll on society and the way that it functions. The real question is, is chivalry dead? And what should society do about it?…
Amazon is an online based selling business. Amazon.com sells thousands of items ranging from clothing, beauty products, books, electronic, plus so much more (“Essortment”, 2011). Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994, focusing on the selling of books (“Essortment”, 2011). Following the creation of Amazon investors took interest, putting money into website design and expanding the range of items sold (“Essortment”, 2011). The decision to sell a variety of items brought success but in 2001 revenue had dropped and employees were being laid off (“Essortment”, 2011). Bezos, the original founder, came up with the idea of recruiting companies to sell their products through the Amazon website, this move generated the needed sales to get Amazon back on its feet and generate profits for all companies involved (“Essortment”, 2011).…
Amazon.com is a customer centric company. They put more effort in improving their system to make the experience of customer more comfortable so that he keeps on returning to the website. Jeffery Bezos who is the founder of the Amazon.com started this company after seeing the use of internet increasing rapidly.…
Amazon is the largest internet based retailer in the United States, which offers millions of products and offers great services. Amazon's well-known for Amazon prime in which we give a two-day free shipping service.…
- American frontierswoman and professional scout known for her claim of being an acquaintance of Wild Bill Hickok and fighting Indians.…
Amazon.com, inc. (Amazon.com) is an online retailer and a web service provider, which has emerged as a leader in the e-business world. Originally, the company began as a website that sold books at discount prices, now Amazon.com has evolved into a marketplace for the world. Jeff Bezos who is the founder and CEO of Amazon.com wanted a name for his company that began with "A" so that it would appear early in alphabetic order. He began looking through the dictionary and settled on "Amazon" because it was a place that was "exotic and different" and it was the river he considered the biggest in the world, as he hoped his company would be. Since 2000, Amazon's logotype is an arrow leading from A to Z, representing customer satisfaction as the narrow forms a smile. His goal was to have every product in the alphabet. The company is into providing products which includes apparels, auto and industrial items, beauty and health products, electronics, grocery, books, games, jewelry, kids and baby products, movies, music, sports goods, toys, tools and others. In other words, amazon.com sells everything in certain ways. The company also provides a number of services including home delivery and shipping, credit card and other financial services, website hosting and other web related services. It offers its merchandise through company-owned retail websites. The company, along with its subsidiaries, operates in North America and other international locations: Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, and China. It may also launch websites in Netherlands, Sweden, and India. It also provides international shipping to certain countries for some of its products. Jeff Bezos opened the virtual doors of Amazon.com's online store in July 1995. The company was incorporated in 1994 in the state of Washington and reincorporated in 1996 in Delaware. The Company's principal corporate offices are…
Amazon is a well-known company that was founded in 1995. It is best known for selling the Kindle, offering low competitive prices, offering fast and responsible cost with shipping that is reliable. Everything could be sold online all at the click of a button. “In 2009, US-based online retailer Amazon.com, Inc. (Amazon) topped BusinessWeek's 2009 annual list of customer service champs”(Qumer 2010). Amazon is completely a customer service company that concentrates, on making sure that the customer is happy and taking care of. Which is reflected in their company values and what they believe in. Amazon was considered to be one of the most customer-centric companies in the world where customers could find and buy anything they wanted online at the lowest possible prices. Delivering excellent customer service and offering compelling value to its customers had been the core strategy of Amazon since its inception.…