Forbes: America’s Richest Families – Walton family (#1) worth over 3X #2 family Ranked list of 54/Forbes subs.

 

Prime members can save $0.50 per gallon on fuel during the Fourth of July weekend Press release

 

Target is starting to track employees’ unexcused lateness and absences with a points system—and if they rack up 12, they’re fired at Fortune. “Starting this September…Staffers’ attendance violations will be tallied up and addressed accordingly: a quarter of a point for being more than eight minutes late to work, one point for missing a shift without their manager’s approval, and three points for skipping on work without telling their boss. The attendance strikes expire every 365 days.” Fortune subs.

 

Lawmakers Say Trump Prosecutor’s Amazon Deals Look ‘Ethically Dubious’ at Bloomberg. “Congressional Democrats are pursuing documents from the top lawyer at the National Labor Relations Board, who previously represented Amazon.” Bloomberg subs.

 

Apple iPhone 18 Pro supplier list, parts and photos exposed in Tata data leak Reuters subs.

 

Prime Day shows how AI is changing shopping at GeekWire. “Adobe reported over that weekend that visitors who clicked through to shopping sites from AI assistants were 40% more likely to make a purchase during the four-day event than those showing up through search, email or social media.” Read more

 

Amazon Seller Reveals Rare Glimpse of Shadow Bribery Market at Bloomberg. “…it’s an open secret among Amazon sellers and consultants, who are frequently approached on social-media platforms and messaging apps. “The message is always the same: ‘I’m going to show you screenshots to prove I have inside access,’” said Chris McCabe, a former Amazon employee who runs a seller consulting firm. “It starts with the internal notes. That’s the bait on the hook.” Bloomberg subs.

 

Trump demands gas stations lower pump prices immediately and renews push for $2.50 gasoline Fox News

 

How to Get AI to Surface Your Brand at Harvard Business Review. “In a study of 15 retail categories—including laptops, pet food, and credit cards—using identical prompts with GPT-4o, Claude, and Gemini, we observed more than 1,000 brand mentions across 716 unique brands. This research…reveals a consistent pattern: brands no longer compete primarily for attention.” Read more

 

Meijer to open 4th Meijer Grocery store in Michigan, complementing the retailer’s 125 supercenters and market format stores across the state Press release

 

Australia’s competition regulator takes Amazon to court over alleged unfair Prime subscription contract terms at CNBC. “The contracts, said the ACCC, required more than a million annual Prime subscribers in the country to accept advertising or pay an additional AU$2.99 ($2.05) per month for an ad-free option…” Read more