Bol.com, the biggest online retailer in the Netherlands, has finally entered the food and drink industry. The ecommerce giant now sells wine, craft beer, champagne, whisk(e)y and other liquors through its website.

Although the retail industry in the United Kingdom is suffering, as more and more empty retail units arise, Amazon is not primarily to blame for this trend. At least, that's the opinion of Amazon's UK managing director Christopher North. “We are still a pretty small part of the total retail environment in the UK.”

No, Amazon didn’t make a typographical error at its site. The American retailer is really charging its French customers for shipping at the rate of one euro cent. And it has everything to do with the ongoing feud between Amazon and the French government.

Amazon is getting very serious about entering the Dutch market with its online store. More and more publishers state the American ecommerce giant has contacted them to negotiate about selling e-books. But it won't be easy for Jeff Bezos's brainchild as Dutch publishers aren't so eager to join forces with Amazon.

Amazon has launched its first same-day delivery service in the United Kingdom, so customers can now order online in the morning and pick up their goods the same afternoon. If a British consumers orders something before 11.45am, he can collect the items at one of 500 locations across the country from 4pm the same day.

Amazon has launched its Dutch ecommerce site. Starting tomorrow morning 8 AM, customers can order ebooks and Amazon's Kindle ereaders online on Amazon.nl. The site offers more than 20,000 Dutch ebooks, as well as 3 million ebooks in other languages. As a result of the launch of Amazon in the Netherlands, the apps and ereaders from the American retailer are now also available in the Dutch language.

Amazon created 6,000 new full-time jobs in Europe last year to respond to booming demand, which was bigger than ever in Europe, says Amazon. Now 32,000 people work for the ecommerce giant in the European Union. These jobs are created in logistics centers, customer service, software development, supply chain management and design.

Amazon's marketplace is the largest of its kind. It's attracting millions of consumers who shop on the Amazon website and get their products from third-party sellers. Now there's a list that shows the global top 1,000 Amazon sellers as well as the top 500 sellers on Amazon's European marketplaces in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy and Spain.

Amazon is pulling the plug on its ecommerce service Amazon Webstore. A message on its homepage says the "ecommerce solution to build your own standalone website is no longer available to new sellers". Amazon Webstore customers have more than a year to find a new shopping cart software provider.

Amazon is launching a new marketplace: Amazon Business. Here, business shoppers can order a wide range of items and get their products delivered in two days for free if an order costs more than 45 euros. It's seems like a very logical step for Amazon, who says millions of business customers have purchased billions of dollars of goods on the regular Amazon.com website in the past year.

Amazon has taken over the lease on a warehouse in London that was previously used by Tesco. This fuels rumors that the American ecommerce giant is planning the launch of AmazonFresh in the United Kingdom.

Amazon is rolling out Ship by Region for European sellers. With the new feature, they can provide a wider selection of countries to which they deliver their products and set tailor-made delivery rates and delivery promises by each country selected.

Consumers in Switzerland can now order products from the German, French or Italian Amazon and get it delivered for free. At least, if the value of their shopping cart is worth 49 euros or more. This will have a huge influence on the Swiss ecommerce industry, Netcomm Suisse says. "It will raise the bar in competitiveness, but will also push ecommerce operators to further improve their offer."

Amazon has placed its Amazon Lockers in a French shopping mall. This is the first time Amazon installs its large metal cabinets on the European mainland. A total of 55 lockers with three different sizes are now located at shopping mall So Oeust in Levallois-Perret, near Paris.

For internet users in Germany, Amazon is the most popular, and at the same time, the most unpopular online store. Even if other retailers have lower prices, Amazon is for most people the most preferred online store. But it's also the most popular choice when people are asked where they don't like to shop but do nonetheless.