Canada’s postal service is preparing for the busy holiday season and will deliver packages on weekends. Starting November 2, Canada Post will be delivering parcels on weekends, which translates into approximately 200,000 delivery hours across Canada over the holiday period. Read more
Amazon is negotiating with state and local governments in Massachusetts for tax breaks for a proposed Fulfillment Center in the state, according to the Boston Globe. The company recently opened a small version of its FCs in Stoughton called a Sortation Center that Read more
Some sellers could be impacted by a fire that broke out at one of Amazon’s fulfillment centers early Saturday morning. However, customers are not impacted, according to Amazon spokesperson Kelly Cheeseman, who told EcommerceBytes, “Our fulfillment center in Murfreesboro is Read more
Amazon.com isn’t just a marketplace – it’s an ad platform where brands and merchants can advertise their products in a number of ways. And the executive whom Ad Age says built Amazon’s ad business from virtually nothing to a revenue stream that Read more
Etsy users can nominate a fellow member they believe is deserving of special recognition through November 3rd. Each year, the company mails “small tokens of appreciation” to Etsy members who’ve had a positive impact on its community as a leader, Read more
eBay opened a Christmas Shop on the UK site earlier this month to attract holiday shoppers, and on Thursday, it kicked off a Christmas marketing campaign on the UK eBay website. In addition to the Christmas Shop, eBay UK will Read more
While PayPal said the holiday shopping season began on September 30th, Amazon.com announced November 1st is the official start of the holiday shopping season on its marketplace. Amazon is using deals as bait to attract holiday gift-givers – it’s kicking off Black Read more
Cash is king in Russia, so eBay and PayPal “have combined to launch a new payment service” on eBay in Russia in association with QIWI, which operates self-service terminals to help Russian consumers buy online as if using cash. eBay Read more
It’s not just Christmas decorations hitting the stores earlier. Holiday shopping behaviors have shown a tendency in recent years to shift to much earlier times than they ever did before the rise of the internet and ecommerce. But not only Read more
Etsy told sellers concerned about a lack of exposure in search results that it was testing a fix to address “clumping” in search. Jaime DeLanghe, Product Manager on the Etsy Search team, provided the update in a thread on the Read more
