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Amazon to recruit over 300,000 US workers for holiday season

Amazon plans to recruit more than 300,000 seasonal, part-time, and full-time staff across its US core operations network for this holiday season. The post Amazon to recruit over 300,000 US workers for holiday season appeared first on Retail

Countdown to Black Friday and Cyber Monday: 4-step self-check for Amazon FBM (Fulfilled by Merchant)

Amazon Alert! IOR Verification Upgraded — Your Shipments May Be Stuck in the US

Urgent Self-Check Recommended!

[Multi-State Income Tax Filing] Series (2): A US company is registered in only one state, so why does it still need to file income tax in multiple states?

The company is registered only in Wyoming, and Amazon already collects sales tax, so why might it still need to file income tax in California and New York?

The new US IOR rules have taken effect—Amazon sellers should check their importer identity immediately!

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is strengthening verification of importer registration information. According to a CBP announcement released in August 2026, starting September 18, 2026, if the information provided by an Importer of Record (IOR) in CBP Form 5106 is inaccurate or incomplete, the relevant IOR numbe

New section on the Amazon storefront—AI summaries

New section on the Amazon storefront—AI summaries

Amazon's new dangerous goods rules effective October 26

Attention Amazon sellers! Starting October 26, 2026, the platform will implement new dangerous goods information reporting requirements for certain products. When creating or editing relevant listings, sellers may need to complete a new version of the dangerous goods questionnaire, otherwise the product information can

Amazon's front-end detail page has 3 extra lines of summary; this new change determines listing conversion

New changes on the Amazon storefront

What is WOOT BD? Which Amazon sellers is it suitable for?

The core strategy of WOOT BD lies in the "three-round drive," using three consecutive BD campaigns to gradually build up product sales and ranking weight, ultimately achieving breakthrough traffic growth.

Amazon AI Upgrade Launches Full-Funnel Advertising!

The core of this Amazon upgrade is the launch of Amazon Ads Agent, which integrates previously fragmented ad delivery and programmatic advertising capabilities into an AI-driven platform, and introduces full-funnel ad campaigns to help advertisers connect the marketing chain from brand exposure and consumer reach to fi

Protect Listings During Peak Season! Amazon's New Listing Protection Mechanism Goes Live, Good News for Sellers

This official Amazon page can tell us a lot of product selection information, and further expand product selection ideas

This official Amazon page can tell us a lot of product selection information, and further expand product selection ideas

Amazon Influencer Videos [The Hidden Ace of Store Growth]

Amazon Influencer Videos [The Hidden Ace of Store Growth]

Amazon to hire over 300,000 workers for Christmas rush

Amazon is reportedly set to recruit more than 300,000 additional workers ahead of the Christmas trading period, marking its first increase in seasonal hiring in three years. The company is ramping up recruitment by more than 20 per cent com

Amazon Uses Healthcare and Banking to Woo More Holiday Workers

Amazon will begin offering seasonal workers health coverage to attract more workers for the holiday shopping season. The eCommerce giant made that announcement Tuesday (Oct. 20) as it began its annual holiday recruitment effort, aiming to h

Workflow context for AI agents with Smartsheet MCP on AWS

The Smartsheet Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server lets AI agents read, update, and act on live data. This post shows two ways to connect it on AWS: Amazon Quick for business teams and Kiro for developers, so your agents can work with Smart

Work management context for AI agents with Smartsheet MCP on AWS

The Smartsheet Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server lets AI agents read, update, and act on live work management data. This post shows two ways to connect it on AWS: Amazon Quick for business teams and Kiro for developers, so your agents can

From data to decisions: Conversational supply chain intelligence with Amazon Quick and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Enterprise supply chains are data-rich but insight-poor, with the data to decide scattered across ERP, monitoring, procurement, and email. This post shows how Amazon Bedrock AgentCore exposes those systems as a governed tool layer, and how

Fine-tuning GPT-OSS-20B for multilingual reasoning on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod

Learn how we fine-tuned GPT-OSS-20B for multilingual reasoning on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod, and how to decide between supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning with GRPO. SFT took reasoning-language accuracy from 22% to 100%,

How Octave built a secure multi-tenant AI foundation on Amazon Bedrock

Octave built a secure, multi-tenant AI foundation on Amazon Bedrock, using Cohere Embed v4 for embeddings and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore for isolated agent execution, to power a Complaint Triage Assistant that searches 2 billion regulated doc

Access OpenAI GPT models on Amazon Bedrock from Canada with cross-Region inference

Canadian organizations can now access OpenAI GPT-5.6, GPT-6, and GPT-6.1 models on Amazon Bedrock from the Canada (Central) and Canada West (Calgary) Regions using cross-Region inference. This post covers the models and inference profiles,

Walmart enlists Sam’s Club in latest challenge to Amazon Prime

The retail giant has bundled its Walmart+ and Sam’s Club Plus memberships for a savings of nearly $100, which could appeal to stressed-out consumers.

How Eon built multi-cloud investigation with an MCP Gateway on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Learn how Eon replaced per-tool credentials and local MCP processes across AWS, GCP, and Azure with a single authenticated Amazon Bedrock AgentCore gateway, giving more than 100 developers and autonomous agents unified access to production

Build a semantic layer for agentic AI on AWS with Denodo and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Build a governed semantic layer for agentic AI on AWS with the Denodo Platform and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. It federates Amazon Aurora, Amazon Redshift, and an on-premises PostgreSQL database into a single customer 360 view an agent querie