Hot News Buy With Prime Is Not Ubiquitous but Growing Thousands of brands adopted Buy with Prime two years after Amazon launched the fulfillment and one-click checkout service in April 2022. Buy with Prime allows shoppers with a Prime membership to shop on e-commerce websites other than Amazon and check out using their Amazon account. Crucially, Amazon also handles fulfillment, which means Buy with Prime is not a replacement for PayPal, Shop Pay, or Apple Pay but rather a complete e-commerce experience inside a checkout button. marketplacepulse.com Amazon FBA Fee Changes for 2024 You are no ..read more

Hot News Amazon, Walmart, Temu, and Shein Overlap According to Marketplace Pulse research, more than 50% of Walmart sellers also sell on Amazon. The number is undercounted because sellers were compared using their business name, which, while normalized to remove common differences like “LLC” versus “L.L.C.,” couldn’t account for all variations. The overlap is likely closer to 80-90% as the average seller typically starts with Amazon and then expands to Walmart; it’s rare to see Walmart-only or Walmart-first sellers. marketplacepulse.com Amazon Prime Day 2024: Everything You Need to Know It ..read more

Hot News Amazon Selling Ppartners Can Now Access Even More Generative AI Features to Create High-Quality Product Listings Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities are transforming virtually every experience, and we are continuing to launch new capabilities that meaningfully improve how customers shop in our store, and how our selling partners succeed in creating thriving businesses. One area we are focused on is helping our selling partners more easily create high-quality product pages. aboutamazon.com Temu Marketplace Launches in the U.S. Temu has started onboarding sellers wit ..read more

Hot News Top Amazon Aggregator Thrasio Files for Bankruptcy Thrasio, a top Amazon aggregator, has filed for Chapter 11 bankrutpcy. Aggregators like Thrasio raised billions of dollars from investors looking to cash in on the third-party seller rollup craze. But cracks in the market began to develop last year, as many aggregators struggled to navigate slowing e-commerce growth and the shaky economy. cnbc.com Amazon’s Big Secret If you read the recently unsealed materials from the federal antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, you’ll see why the company wanted to keep them under wraps. According to ..read more

Hot News Amazon's "Significant" Reliance on Chinese Sellers Amazon acknowledged the Chinese seller market share on its marketplace for the first time, calling it “significant.” In the annual Form 10-K filing with the SEC, Amazon added new language to the warning about the risks its international operations expose it to. marketplacepulse.com Shopify Vs. Amazon (2024 Comparison) There are a lot of opportunities for e-commerce entrepreneurs as the number of online shoppers keeps climbing every year. Before launching an online business, you’ll need to choose an e-commerce platform where you’ll ..read more

Hot News Temu Marketplace Inviting US Sellers Temu will open its marketplace to U.S. sellers in March and extend to European sellers soon after. The number one most-downloaded shopping app is expanding beyond Chinese sellers. The more than 100,000 sellers on Temu today are all based in China, based on Marketplace Pulse research. Because Temu’s marketplace requires sellers to agree on wholesale pricing and ship goods in bulk to Temu’s warehouses in China. marketplacepulse.com British Amazon Sellers Despair After Payment Freeze Many British Amazon merchants are at a loss after the platform fr ..read more

Hot News Amazon Adds an AI Shopping Assistant The section “Looking for specific info?” on a product page, which previously searched in reviews and customer questions and allowed submitting new questions that sellers or other customers could answer, is now powered by AI on the iPhone/Android app. It relies on the product details and reviews ingested by a large language model (LLM) to respond with AI-generated answers to practically every imaginable question. marketplacepulse.com Amazon Sellers May Need to Change Product Manual Settings Amazon product detail pages will be limited beginning Ja ..read more

Hot News This Year, TikTok Shop Is Hiking Its US Seller Fees From 2% to 8% TikTok's ecommerce efforts are about to turn a lot more profitable for the social media giant, according to a new report that claims TikTok Shop will soon quadruple its fees from 2% to 8%. It's a classic story of online app success: Enter the market with such low fees that no one can turn them down, establish a userbase, and then hike those fees way up — opening up the possibility for another competitor to swoop in and start the process again. tech.co Advertisers Will Tune In To Streaming In 2024 As More Services Cou ..read more

Hot News Amazon revamps seller fulfillment fees for 2024 In an email to sellers it reposted in a corporate blog, the e-tail giant said it is breaking its seller shipping fees into charges for sending products into its Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) fulfillment network (“inbound”) and shipping products out of its network (“outbound”). chainstoreage.com Ten Years of Amazon Drones Ten years after Jeff Bezos promised half-hour shipping with Amazon drones, the company has made zero drone deliveries. But it now delivers billions of packages yearly using good-old delivery trucks. marketplacepulse.com ..read more

Hot News Amazon Launches Shopify App for Buy With Prime Buy with Prime allows shoppers with a Prime membership to shop on e-commerce websites other than Amazon and check out using their Amazon account. Crucially, Amazon also handles fulfillment, which means Buy with Prime is not a replacement for PayPal, Shop Pay, or Apple Pay but rather a complete e-commerce experience inside a checkout button. The service launched in April 2022, and Amazon and Shopify announced the partnership to allow Shopify merchants to add the Buy with Prime fulfillment and checkout service in August 2023. marketplacepu ..read more