“Amazon grew to over 100 million U.S. Prime members in the quarter,” said Josh Lowitz, CIRP co-founder. “Membership growth has slowed, but continued steadily in the holiday quarter. U.S. membership grew 10 percent in the past year, slower than before, but still significant on a huge base and after years of rapid growth. Membership doubled in three years, and almost quadrupled in five years, from 26 million members in December 2013.”
“Employees are scared,” he said. “I am scared. I do not want to bring this to my family. This is an unprecedented event. There is no playbook for employees or companies.”
“Amazon is excited to be working with the Seattle Storm to bring fans and families a new way to interact with the team, get moving, and have fun with Alexa,” Kevin Burkhart, director, Amazon Alexa and Echo, said in a statement. “As a season ticket holder and Seattle Storm supporter, I’m excited to try the workouts with my family.”
“Because of Chinese consumers, a group like Fosun can buy a foreign luxury brand at a price most others cannot, because they can then bring them to China and capture a lot of additional value,” said Jeffrey Towson, professor of investment at Peking University. “The Qatar Investment fund doesn’t have a home population that is 50 percent of global luxury spending.”
“If it goes ahead, it’s going to have major ramifications for global trading patterns, which are huge and damaging,” he said, adding “It’s really a situation where no one wins”.
“Defendants Christopher and Adam Bowser are con-artists who prey on people hoping to become sellers on Amazon.com,” reads the first line of Amazon’s complaint.
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“Amazon’s continued growth in South Lake Union is a testament to its continued commitment to our city, helping create more jobs and contributing to the positive transformation of the neighborhood into one of our region’s most vibrant and exciting communities,” said Ada M. Healey, vice president of real estate at Vulcan.
“As a Post employee specifically, though, one of my biggest frustrations with Amazon is that the story you’re writing is such an obvious one to do: The immense wealth and power that Jeff Bezos amassed there let him pour resources into our work, but also gives people reason to wonder whether Amazon is off-limits for us. My colleagues who cover the company do a good job navigating the many potential conflicts of interest inherent in writing critically about a massive corporation run by your boss. But those conflicts of interest are there no matter how well we do our jobs.”
“If the list takes effect, the US will actually impose tariffs on both Chinese and foreign companies, including US ones,” Gao said. “The US is firing at not only the world, but also itself.”
“During this period, people became wealthier and had more purchasing power. This meant that the smaller stores they used to shop at were unable to meet their growing demands,” said Song.