| Alibaba - Ali Centre in Shanghai / Benoy
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| © Wenxi Zhang • Architects: Benoy • Location:: Hongqiao, Shanghai, China • Interior Designer: Benoy • Client: Alibaba • Area: 140000.0 m2 • Project Year: 2018 • Photography: Wenxi Zhang © Wenxi Zhang Text description provided by the architects. Located in the business district of Hongqiao, Shanghai, the new Ali Centre covers three plots and includes retail, commercial offices and two central squares. The development consists of four buildings covering a gross floor area of over 140,000m2. The lower floors of each will house new online and offline retail businesses which will be accessible to the public, while the upper floors are given to international Grade-A office spaces. © Wenxi Zhang The design philosophy behind the Ali Centre was to create an open and interconnected complex conscious of innovation and reflecting the characteristics of mid-to-high-end commercial needs. The overall concept looks at space maximisation, comfortable pedestrian flow and open-air spaces. As the Interior Designer, Benoy ...
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| Amazon Hands Out Small Raises to Warehouse Workers, But Says It's Competitive
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| Ecommerce giant Amazon is known for keeping its prices low, a tactic that dominoes to wage increases for its employees. The company recently handed out hourly raises that ranged from 25 cents to 55 cents an hour to its warehouse workers, according to the Washington Post, which spoke to workers across the country. The raises, announced in warehouse all-hands meetings, were what some employees called the first in four years and one described as "damage control." Wages now run between $11.50 and $15.05 an hour depending on the warehouse and part of the country, the Post reported. An Amazon spokesperson told Fortune said that the company evaluates wages every year, and attempts to set compensation at 30% higher than the average retail employee in the area. The spokesperson said raises come every few years or more often, and said that it was unaware of a full-time associate who would have gone four years without a bump. The company estimates that with cash, stock, and incentive bonuses for those employed ...
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| Snapchat's Latest Feature: Searching Amazon to Buy What Your Camera Sees
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| Snap, the innovative social-media company that has been under pressure from investors to beef up its financials, is partnering with Amazon to use its Snapchat app as a visual search engine for the ecommerce giant. "Beginning this week, we're testing a new way to search for products on Amazon right from the Snapchat camera," Snap said in a blog post Monday. "Simply point your Snapchat camera at a physical product or barcode, and press and hold on the camera screen to get started." Doing so calls up an Amazon link to the product or a similar one, which can be purchased through Amazon. Snap went public at $24 a share with massive losses and intense competition from Facebook, which has brazenly adopted Snap's most popular innovations like Stories. The stock has lost nearly two thirds of its IPO valuation as the company struggles to increase users and monetize their activity into revenue. In a way, the partnership marks a step for Snap into two of the internet's older and more traditional business models: ...
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| Sam's Club CEO: The 63 Stores We Closed Are Fueling E-Commerce Growth
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 Earlier this year, Sam's Club announced it was closing 63 of its U.S. stores in a move that raised questions about the prospects of the warehouse club operator. The news was a shock. Closing 10% of stores had been more typical of struggling chains like J.C. Penney or Macy's. Sam's Club, by contrast, had experienced middling performance for the past several years. But Sam's Club, a unit of Walmart Inc wmt , was not even close to keeping pace with sales growth at competitor Costco Wholesale cost , whose more affluent clientele and better locations gave it a big edge. "It was clear that a certain number of the clubs were not going to be successful by focusing in, and some of those clubs were a financial drain," said CEO John Furner on Monday at Fortune Brainstorm Reinvent conference in Chicago. So Furner, who became CEO of Sam's Club in early 2017, decided those locations would be more useful as hubs that could speed up the retailer's e-commerce delivery. For years, Sam's Club mistakenly believed that ...
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| Holiday Predictions Webinar: Mobile, AI Product Recommendations Will Shine
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 Mobile has been growing fast during the past few holiday seasons, and it's projected to hit a major milestone in 2018: more e-Commerce purchases will be made on mobile phones than on any other device during the season. That's just one of the predictions offered by leading analysts at Salesforce, drawing on a global study of 500 million consumers creating more than one billion shopping visits. "In the 2018 holiday season, there will be more mobile visits than all the e-Commerce visits on any device in 2015," said Caila Schwartz, Business Intelligence Senior Analyst at Salesforce. Schwartz and Rick Kenney, Sr. Director, Strategy and Insights at Salesforce provided a look back at holiday 2017 and predictions for 2018 during the Retail Strategy and Planning (RSP) webinar, titled: Holiday Predictions: What To Expect Based On Data From 500 Million Shoppers. [Read recaps of the other RSP sessions here.] Top Recommendations For Holiday Prep {loadposition GIAA}The Salesforce speakers made several recommendations ...
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| A new application suggests Amazon is preparing to double down on selling its own jewelry
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 • Amazon has filed a trademark for a "For Keeps by Amazon" brand, according to a filing with the US patent office. • The filing notes that it can be used for the "online retail sales of jewelry." • Another Amazon-brand line of jewelry featuring precious metals and stores could scare industry stalwarts which still haven't quite broken into selling all of their pieces online yet. Amazon could be doubling down in jewelry. • Instacart's CEO describes the moment he discovered Amazon was stealing its Whole Foods business • Aldi is rolling out grocery delivery across the US in a direct assault against Walmart, Amazon, and Kroger • Amazon has launched a new page to address one of its biggest criticisms Read more...
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