Giuseppe Caprotti: ‘From trolleys to history, the luck of living more lives’

What will we read about in your new book? ‘I tell another side of the family through two extraordinary explorers: my eponymous ancestor Giuseppe Caprotti, who lived thirty years in Yemen, and my great uncle Gianni Albertini, a skier and mountaineer who explored the North Pole’.

Quick Take — Amazon to invest more than EUR 5 billion in Poland

…This is in addition to the EUR 10 billion the company has already invested in the market between 2012 and 2025. Part of this investment will go into a new distribution centre.

Poland has risen to 20th place in the ranking of the world’s largest economies.

E-commerce in Poland has also grown rapidly. According to the Polish Chamber of Commerce, online sales in the country reached EUR 21.5 billion in 2025, an increase of 6.8 per cent. Online sales are also expected to increase by around 7.1% this year…

Poland is already one of the 20 largest economies in the world and Amazon intends to play an active role in strengthening this position,” says Mariangela Marseglia, Vice President of Amazon European Stores..

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Quick Take — Amazon launches one-hour delivery in US cities to challenge Walmart

The Seattle-based e-commerce giant said Tuesday that its 1-hour delivery option is available for more than 90,000 products, including essentials, toys and toilet paper, and will build on its existing same-day delivery network. The 60-minute delivery option was launched in major US metropolitan areas and smaller cities such as Boise, Idaho. The 3-hour delivery option has been launched in over 2,000 cities and towns. Perishable food products are available in selected areas, Amazon said. Reuters

Amazon recently launched Amazon Now “in select areas”

So there are three levels of delivery: 30 minutes, 1 hour and 3 hours

Quick Take — Amazon: suspected tax evasion

Amazon in Italy charges in Luxembourg for the products I buy.

And it is not only me, an Amazon customer, who receives notifications from Amazon – the repetition is intentional – , which I enclose, a study carried out with theBicocca University says so.

Note that not only the goods but also the Prime subscription is paid, to an ad hoc company, in Luxembourg (all this also applies to Amazon’s marketplace = third-party suppliers).

If you are not convinced that Amazon does not pay what it should to the Italian state, you can also read this article.

Repubblica 13 March 2026

AI Agents in Retail: the silent revolution in large-scale retail

McKinsey estimates that retailers with autonomous AI systems are growing 50 per cent faster than competitors. Cognizant projects $4.4 trillion in additional spending over the next five years from customers embracing AI. Agents are not an investment in the future of retail, they are already the present, and those who delay to act today risk having to make up for a hard-to-fill disadvantage tomorrow

Quick Take — Amazon: e-commerce malfunctions due to AI?

The red alert is said to have been raised immediately after a malfunction of the ecommerce site that occurred in early March and lasted for about six hours, during which customers were unable to complete transactions or use certain specific functions such as checking the price of products or accessing their profile on the site. According to the Financial Times , this is just the latest episode in a long series of malfunctions caused precisely by errors introduced by Q, the artificial intelligence assistant for computer code development that was chosen by the tech giant. A tool that, together with Kira – the assistant employed instead by Amazon Web Services, the subsidiary that deals with cloud services -, seems to have been adopted by all Amazon developers.