Sep 15, 2020

Retailers Do Not Need Marketplaces

Retailers continue to launch marketplaces to fix their lacking online presence by offloading the work to third-party sellers; however, those marketplaces never work.

Sep 10, 2020

Amazon’s Fastest Growing Markets During the Pandemic

Italy, India, Germany, Japan, France, and the U.K. - Amazon's key international markets - lagged behind the U.S. in web traffic growth. While others, especially Australia and Canada, outpaced it. Across all seventeen marketplaces, Amazon added one billion monthly visits and was up 24%.

Sep 9, 2020

AmazonBasics Is Not Thriving Amid COVID-19

AmazonBasics products are not benefiting from the pandemic opportunity - the number of AmazonBasics best-sellers has remained flat for over twelve months. Generally, private label products do well in periods of recessions and pandemics. Amazon’s private label products did not.

Sep 2, 2020

Amazon Now Lists Sellers' Business Name and Address

Amazon started displaying business names and addresses for the millions of sellers in the U.S. marketplace on September 1st. The change puts the U.S. marketplace in line with its European, Japan, and Mexico marketplaces, where local laws require business details to be public.

Sep 1, 2020

Walmart's Fulfillment Service For Sellers Not Seeing Adoption

Walmart Fulfillment Services (WFS) that allows third-party sellers to store and fulfill inventory from Walmart's warehouse is powering less than 0.1% of the two-day enabled products. Only 150 sellers out of the 54,000 total have started using the service launched six months ago.

Aug 27, 2020

Stores Were Behind Q2 E-Commerce Growth

U.S. e-commerce grew 44.5% in the second quarter, the fastest growth in over two decades. While online platforms like Shopify and Etsy posted record-breaking numbers, big-box retailers ready for curbside pickup and delivery grew the fastest.

Aug 25, 2020

Amazon-Native Brand Anker Goes Public

Anker, a Chinese brand founded in 2011 by ex-Google engineer Steven Yang, debuted on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange on August 24th. The brand was one of the first Amazon-native brands and is now on target to $1 billion in sales in 2020.

Aug 21, 2020

Amazon Seller Fulfilled Prime is in Limbo

The program that enables marketplace sellers to offer Prime shipping without the use of Amazon’s warehouses had several changes announced this week that increased performance requirements fewer sellers will be able to meet. The company has also removed pages describing the program from search engines.