Amazon sells more than 100 million products on Prime Day event at Reuters. "Amazon said it sold over a million smart home devices in the United States." Read more   eBay chops hundreds of Bay Area jobs by George Avalos at The Mercury News. "eBay has decided to eliminate nearly 300 Bay Area jobs...They include cuts at the company’s headquarters on Hamilton Avenue in San Jose." Read more   Inside FreshDirect’s Big Bet to Win the Home-Delivery Fight by Jennifer Smith at The Wall Street Journal. "...the new facility has 15 different temperature zones. Tomatoes do best at about [...]

  Walmart and Microsoft Join Forces in Battle Against Amazon by Grace Dobush at Fortune. "The agreement gives Walmart access to Microsoft’s 365 and Azurecloud computing systems across all its lines of business, migrating some of its apps and websites to Azure. The retail giant plans to build out a worldwide Internet of Things platform with Microsoft, connecting its stores and shipping systems to streamline its supply chain." Read more | WSJ article (Subs.)   Petco unveils first PetCoach store in San Diego by Jennifer Van Grove at San Diego Tribune. "Petco is opening a new kind of retail store where [...]

  Amazon Prime Day threatened by strikes at European warehouses over working conditions at CNBC. "A group called Amazon En Lucha organized the walk out at the company's fulfillment center just outside the Spanish capital of Madrid. The strike will last until July 18 and the employees also called for Amazon workers around Europe to go on strike." Read more   The unintentional winners of Prime Day: Amazon’s competitors at CNBC. "During the week leading up to this year's event, searches for Amazon were up 544 percent over the previous week...Searches for Best Buy during the same period were up [...]

  Amazon Takes a Page From Toys ‘R’ Us With a Holiday Catalog by Matthew Townsend at Bloomberg. "The printed guide will be mailed to millions of U.S. households and handed out at Whole Foods Market locations, the grocery chain Amazon bought last year, said the people, who asked not to be named because the plan isn’t public." Tiered subs.   Barnes & Noble fires CEO Demos Parneros for violating company policies at CNBC. "The company did not specify exactly which policies were violated...Parneros will not receive any severance and is no longer a director on its board, the company said in [...]

  Shopper spends $1M at a Toys 'R' Us just before store closes for good, plans to donate toys to local children by Kate Feldman at NY Daily News. "The anonymous good Samaritan walked into the Raleigh, N.C., store last week and told employees to box everything up, local station CBS 17 reported." Read more   Amazon Prime Day will be 36 hours this year vs. 30 last year, starting at 12 p.m. Pacific, July 16 by Nat Levy at GeekWire. Read more   Walmart names Chief Customer Officer & CMO at CNBC. "Walmart has appointed  former American Express executive Janey Whiteside to the [...]