AWS overtaken by Google Cloud Platform in retail | more from Selfridges, JD.com, Nielsen & Waitrose (August 18)

18th August 2020

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AWS overtaken by Google Cloud Platform in retail as brands reluctant to work with rival
Waitrose and M&S battle for customers as Ocado swap brings rivalry to boiling point
Selfridges will now sell fresh produce grown inside its own stores
JD.com smashes analyst estimates and sees shares rally despite Trump’s Chinese crackdown
Online grocery sales jump 117% in “the most dramatic change of shopping behaviour we’ve ever seen”

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