Amazon How the World's Most Relentless Retailer will Continue to Revolutionize Commerce

The retail industry is facing unprecedented challenges. Across all sectors and markets, retailers are shifting their business models and customer engagement strategies to ensure their survival. The rise of online shopping, and its primary player, Amazon, is at the heart of many of these changes and opportunities. Amazon explores the e-commerce giant's strategies, providing original insight at a time when the company is on the cusp of revolutionizing itself even further. Amazon's relentless dissatisfaction with the status quo is what makes it such an extraordinary retailer. This book explores whether Amazon has what it takes to become a credible grocery retailer, and as it transitions to bricks and mortar retailing, explores whether Amazon's stores can be as compelling as their online offering and if innovations such as voice technology, checkout-free stores and its Prime ecosystem will fundamentally change the way consumers shop. Written by industry leading retail analysts who have spent decades providing research-based analysis and opinion, Amazon analyzes the impact these initiatives will have on the wider retail sector and the lessons that can be learned from its unprecedented rise to dominance, as stores of the future become less about transactions and more about experiences.

Natalie Berg has spent many years helping retailers compete, or partner with, retail giants like Walmart and Amazon. An American speaker and retail commentator, she is former Global Research Director at Planet Retail and runs her own consultancy, NBK Retail, specializing in retail strategy, changing shopping habits and future trends. She is co-author of Walmart. Miya Knights is Head of Eagle Eye Solutions with 20 years' experience as an analyst, journalist and editor, specializing in enterprise technology use in retail. She owns Retail Technology magazine and is ranked one of Vend's top 50 retail influencers.

Provides fascinating insight into Amazon's retail strategy, including the unique challenges it faces in making the pivotal leap from online to bricks-and-mortar