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Amazon is taking its physical store — grocery ambitions — across the pond. The e-commerce giant and everything retailer has opened its first physical store outside the United States, and its a grocery store. The Ealing store in London is a grocery store that will be bannered Amazon Fresh, just like the grocery stores that Amazon has been opening across the U.S. According to the company, the 2,500-square-foot Amazon Fresh store will offer customers everything they’d want from a local g...

Wednesday, Jan. 6 Theft on Commonwealth Avenue: At 11:15 a.m., a staff member at an Amazon Hub reported seeing a man leaving the loading dock with a box of items. Police took a report. Assault on South Street: At 12:14 p.m., staff at Bournewood Hospital told police one patient assaulted another. The patients had since been separated. Assault on Kent Street: At 12:42 p.m., a caller told police an unknown woman shoved her as they were passing each other on the sidewalk. Police took a report. Susp...

My Packages Keep Getting Stolen. What Can I Do? A 2019 analysis found that 90,000 packages are lost or stolen every day in New York. And it’s only getting worse during the pandemic. Credit...Nadia Pillon Jan. 2, 2021 Q: Packages have been getting stolen from my rental building in Sugar Hill, Harlem. We’ve been getting more packages delivered since the pandemic, and they are often left in the lobby with no protection. Tenants are working hard to notify neighbors about the deliveries, but we ...

Amazon, Walmart expand holiday return options Tis the season for those pesky gift returns. Two major retailers made changes this year in an effort to ease the post-holiday stress. and last updated 2020-12-29 07:54:35-05 KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The stockings have been unstuffed and the presents opened, marking the start of a new season: time for holiday gift returns. This year, two of the largest retailers are making changes to returns in an effort to simplify the process for shoppers. "We just...

FamilyMart to increase stores with Amazon lockers sevenfold Sorry, but your browser needs Javascript to use this site. If youre not sure how to activate it, please refer to this site: https://www.enable-javascript.com/ FamilyMart Co. will increase the number of its outlets with Amazon Hub parcel lockers amid increasing demand for online shopping. | BLOOMBERG Jiji Dec 28, 2020 FamilyMart Co. President Takashi Sawada has said the convenience store operator will increase the number ...

Remember that cheesy sweater your aunt got you last year? The one with the light-up Rudolph nose? It’s still hanging in your closet, untouched, where it has been since Dec. 26, 2019. You should have exchanged it for one of the 15 top tech gifts instead. You don’t have to keep those unwanted gifts around. Your loved ones spent hard-earned money on them, so exchange them for something you’ll actually use instead. If you’re worried about what to do with the knock-off electroni...

An Amazon warehouse in New Jersey has temporarily closed due to COVID-19 at one of the busiest times of the year for the online retailer.  The corporations Robbinsville warehouse has been shut down until Saturday out of “an abundance of caution,” officials said. “Through our in-house COVID-19 testing program, we detected an increase in the number of asymptomatic positive cases at PNE5 [the Robbinsville warehouse] and have proactively closed the site until December 26th out of an abundan...

Dec 21, 2020 Update 12/21/20 – Diamond Point and Castle Hill have completed construction on the Cascade Road self-storage facility in Atlanta. Opened on Nov. 5, the property comprises 96,090 square feet. Features include an executive conference room, workstations, a copy center and Amazon Hub locker, according to a press release. It’ll be managed by Life Storage Inc., a publicly traded real estate investment trust and third-party management firm. “The Cascade Road area has a great deal of...

Amazon is expanding its return window for items purchased as early as October. Returns can be brought to Whole Foods stores and many other locations, and dont require a label in most cases. Many items can be returned without a box, and customers have until January 31st to return items purchased within the specified window. Christmas is coming and the time for gift-giving is upon us. It also means the time for gift returns is coming soon thereafter. This year due to ongoing social distancing pro...

Posted on 10261 Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that it’s here to help make buying – and returning – even more stress-free and convenient as possible this holiday season. New this year, customers have even more time to make a decision on keeping that gift or holiday purchase with an even longer returns window. Most items shipped between October 1 and December 31, 2020, can be returned until January 31, 2021. In addition, ...