Amazon is hiring 120,000 seasonal workers in the US to ship holiday orders, it announced on Thursday. They will join the 125,000 regular, full-time employees at Amazon’s more than 75 fulfillment centers across the country. The company noted it has Read more
Amazon found another way to wring benefits from its Prime membership program: allow teens to shop using their parents’ accounts. The benefits to the company are clear – making it easier for household members to shop results in greater sales, Read more
Etsy recently launched features sellers could use to promote free shipping offers and advised sellers today that shoppers are now beginning to see them. Etsy introduced free shipping badge on listings in search and on category pages, a free shipping Read more
Rates for some key USPS shipping services including Priority Mail and First Class Package Service are going up significantly on January 21, 2018 (assuming they’re approved by the PRC), and according to Postal Mag, those rates had been approved in Read more
Walmart is making returns even easier, beginning with online purchases from its website and eventually expanding it to brick-and-mortar and third-party merchant sales. The Mobile Express Returns leverages Walmart’s 4,700 physical locations and lets customers initiate returns process on its Read more
Amazon launched a program for small and medium sized businesses in rural UK called the Amazon Academy. The program is designed to help rural businesses sell online. The first Academy event will be held next month in Birmingham at the Read more
eBay rolled out a new search feature called Grouped Listings. “By leveraging structured data and machine learning, we’ve organized the listings across all shopping categories on eBay to show you the best product results for your search and for each Read more
eBay published lists of the top Halloween costumes searched and sold on its site based on data from a 3-week period in September (9/3 – 9/22). eBay said comic book legends and horror classics continue to top searches while the Read more
The USPS is proposing to raise the cost of Priority Mail rates by an average of 3.9%, though sellers who use online postage to print shipping labels could see prices increase about 6 percent on average. If approved by the Read more
Etsy is making it easier for shoppers to request gift-wrapping for their orders and for sellers to charge for gift-wrapping services. For listings where gift wrapping is offered, buyers will see the option to add it for an additional fee. Read more
