Amazon announced today its third-quarter sales (July, August, September) grew 34% year-over-year to $43.7 billion. Excluding Whole Foods Market and the impact from foreign exchange rates, net sales increased 29% compared with third quarter 2016. Excerpt of press release follows: Read more
The US Postal Service expects to deliver 10% more packages during the holiday period than last year, it announced on Wednesday. Between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, the USPS expects to deliver 850 million packages, and it expects to deliver Read more
The mailbox may soon be a quaint throwback as retailers look to deliver packages right inside your home, and Amazon is going even further with a new service launched on Tuesday. Amazon Key enables in-home delivery at no extra cost Read more
Amazon is opening a new fulfillment center in Arizona. The news came in a press release announcing Amazon’s 10-year anniversary operating in the state, where it employs 6,000 people and intends to hire another 1,000. Amazon also revealed it has Read more
eBay announced that its ticket marketplace StubHub has become an NFL-authorized ticket resale marketplace beginning with the 2018-2019 season. The NFL is allowing other ticketing marketplaces to integrate into its primary platform, but eBay noted: “StubHub will be granted certain Read more
eBay will begin rolling out the new version of Markdown Manager for sellers in Canada, it announced on Monday. The marketing tool is available to sellers who have a Stores subscription. Announcement follows: Over the coming weeks, Canadian sellers will Read more
Retail chain Target will offer free shipping for online holiday shoppers from Nov. 1 through Dec. 23, with no minimum purchase required, it announced Monday, further pressuring online merchants to offer free shipping. Target is kicking off a holiday multi-media Read more
PayPal launched a new solution for marketplaces and ecommerce platforms. A PayPal spokesperson told EcommerceBytes: “PayPal for Marketplaces is a new payments solution designed specifically for marketplaces and crowdfunding platforms where people buy and sell goods and services or raise Read more
Amazon launched a new Handmade Gift Shop featuring items from its Amazon Handmade marketplace sellers. Launched in 2015, Amazon Handmade now features hundreds of thousands of handcrafted items in 10 categories, including Jewelry, Home & Kitchen, Stationary and Party Supplies, Read more
Facebook users can now choose PayPal as a funding source when making a payment to a friend inside Facebook Messenger. PayPal made the announcement on Friday and also announced its first customer service bot for Messenger, so PayPal customers can Read more
