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Explore Amazon's disruptive new retail strategies, its impact on the wider eCommerce sector, and gain valuable lessons that can be applied to retailers globally.

The retail industry is facing unprecedented challenges. Across all sectors and markets, retailers are shifting their business models and customer engagement strategies to ensure their survival. The rise of online shopping, and its primary player, Amazon, is at the heart of many of these changes and opportunities. Amazon explores the e-commerce giant's strategies, providing original insight at a time when the company is on the cusp of revolutionizing itself even further.

Amazon's relentless dissatisfaction with the status quo is what makes it such an extraordinary retailer. This book explores whether Amazon has what it takes to become a credible grocery retailer, and as it transitions to bricks and mortar retailing, explores whether Amazon's stores can be as compelling as its online offering and if innovations such as voice technology, checkout-free stores and its Prime ecosystem will fundamentally change the way consumers shop.

Written by industry leading retail analysts who have spent decades providing research-based analysis and opinion, Amazon analyzes the impact these initiatives will have on the wider retail sector and the lessons that can be learned from its unprecedented rise to dominance, as stores of the future become less about transactions and more about experiences.

Miya Knights has nearly 20 years' experience as a journalist, editor and research director specializing in enterprise technology use in retail. She has spent this time reporting on the demands and challenges faced by retailers and which technologies can best support their needs in addressing ever-more complex consumer expectations and behaviors. She also has comprehensive knowledge and understanding of vendor market trends.

Prior to joining Eagle Eye Solutions as Head of Industry Insight, she was Global Technology Research Director at Planet Retail, and a Senior Research Analyst with IDC Retail Insights, having edited Retail Technology magazine for 10 years, which she now also owns and publishes. Miya is consistently ranked as one of the industry top ranked retail influencers, and has recently appeared on the BBC, ITN and Sky News, as well as regularly speaking at or moderating industry events. As a journalist Miya regularly contributed to many publications, including The Times, The Independent, Financial Times, E&T Magazine, HRZone, TechWeekEurope UK, CIO UK, Computer Weekly, IT Pro, Cloud Pro, v3.co.uk and Computing. She has a Masters Degree in English Literature and Language from the University of Oxford.

Natalie Berg has spent many years helping retailers compete, or partner with, retail giants like Walmart and Amazon. An American speaker and retail commentator, she is former Global Research Director at Planet Retail and now runs her own consultancy, NBK Retail, specializing in retail strategy, changing shopping habits and future trends.

As one of the Top 30 global retail influencers, Berg has produced research on a number of industry topics including: convergence of physical and digital retail, click & collect, customer loyalty, discount retailing, store of the future and frictionless commerce. She is a regular TV and radio guest and her views on retail have been published in the FT, Guardian, BBC, The Times, Retail Week, among others. Natalie holds a Bachelor of Science in International Business from the University of Connecticut and also studied at Ecole Supérieure de Commerce in Grenoble, France.