Amazon is facing a major restructuring and wants to make substantial savings. Unprofitable business units are to be significantly reduced or disappear altogether. 18,000 employees will leave the company. This will result in high severance payments and other enormous costs.

The sales outlook was rather disappointing. The measures will make Amazon significantly more profitable. Just as the stock market has always wanted. An example? Amazon announced that they have suspended the launch of Amazon Fresh stores while they assess the unit economics.

Jeff Bezos could bet on the long-term truths. Andy Jassy does not have this luxury. He is driven by external factors such as the pandemic, labor shortages and uncertain economy.

Die neuesten Geschäftszahlen von #Shopify, #Bike24 und #Mirakl belegen: Der #ecommerce Markt wächst weiter. Shopify setzt Prioritäten auf schnellere Lieferungen und Effizienz, während Mirakl den Trend zu Plattform-Geschäftsmodellen unterstreicht bit.ly/3YNn1Ze

🔔📈 Amazon's Q1/2023 Earnings. Even Amazon has a hard time navigating the dynamic world of digital commerce. This narrative might be changing in Q1, 2023. The North American segment reported a positive operating margin of 1.2%, a significant improvement from previous quarters.

Amazon Q1 / 2023: 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝗻, 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝘀 Yet, the efforts towards resilience and transformation in Q1 2023 signal the start of a promising period of margin expansion.

Last year, Zalando suffered from customers' lack of enthusiasm for shopping, with the fashion store being particularly affected. Massive overstock in the assortment, overcapacity in logistics, and a steep discount spiral significantly impacted the company's performance.

Ralf Kotthoff (now on Threads) es wird (leider) noch schlimm

⬛️ AI progress vs. human intelligence stagnation: A call for self-thinking It's not the progress of #ArtificialIntelligence that should worry us, but the stagnation of human intelligence. Think for yourself, or others will do it for you. #HumanIntelligence #SelfThinking

Handel: Personalkosten = erheblicher Anteil der Betriebskosten. Lean Management kann diese Kosten signifikant senken. Selbst kleine Einsparungen führen zu erheblichen Gewinnsteigerungen, die prozentual oft höher sind als Umsatzsteigerungen. #LeanManagement #Effizienz #Retail

Verrückt, was es alles gibt.

🚀 Effizienz, Effizienz, Effizienz im E-Commerce! Unternehmen müssen Kosten optimieren und auf Automatisierung setzen, um wettbewerbsfähig zu bleiben - Shopware will da helfen? #ECommerce #Effizienz ecommerce.shopware.com/hubfs/Whitepap…

Kundenverhaltens-KPIs zu Akquise, Wiederholungskäufe, Abwanderung , die mit Standard-Finanzkennzahlen nicht zu erkennen sind. Zwei Unternehmen mit identische Finanzkennzahlen, aber unterschiedlichen Kundenverhalten --> führt zu anderen Rückschlüssen auf die Zukunftsfähigkeit

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Meanwhile, Foot Locker is closing its stores and e-commerce operations in South Korea, as well as its stores and e-commerce operations in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.

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Eine starke Leistungskultur wird oft propagiert, aber selten gelebt. Wenn Mitarbeiterinnen hauptsächlich für kurzfristige Erfolge belohnt werden, geraten langfristige strategische Ziele und deren Ausführung in den Hintergrund.

the chatgpt launch 26 months ago was one of the craziest viral moments i'd ever seen, and we added one million users in five days. we added one million users in the last hour.

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