Amazon will officially buy Whole Foods Market on Monday and has promised to immediately start lowering prices. Eventually it will make Amazon Prime the supermarket’s customer rewards program, providing Prime members with special savings and other in-store benefits. And Amazon Read more
Google is doubling down on its Google Express shopping-and-delivery service and is adding Walmart to the list of stores participating in the program. Google Express allows shoppers to find and order items from one or more retailers using the Google Read more
Etsy launched new tools on August 1st that allow sellers run and manage sales and coupons for their Etsy shops, and as of Tuesday, shoppers can search for sales on Etsy with a new “on sale” filter. As we previously Read more
eBay has expanded its partnership with Mall for Africa that allows Africans to purchase eBay items. Now Mall for Africa will sell goods from Africans in Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, and Burundi in a store on eBay.com. The store Read more
PayPal CEO Dan Schulman will host a Facebook Live of PayPal’s Tech Expo with the company’s Chief Technology Officer Sri Shivananda to showcase some of its latest innovations. The Technology Expo is annual event where technologists across PayPal convene at Read more
The President of StubHub took the helm of eBay Americas yesterday, and today he sent a message to sellers through a posting on the Seller Announcement Board. Scott Cutler takes over from Hal Lawton, who left eBay to become president Read more
eBay will expand its new Question and Answer feature to the UK beginning in October. The feature allows shoppers to ask questions about products on catalog product pages, and anyone can supply answers. eBay says the feature could help reduce Read more
eBay lost the head of Marketplaces North America to Macy’s. Hal Lawton will join the retailer on September 8, 2017 as its President. The move is lucrative for Lawton, who received a base salary of $650,000 at eBay in 2016 Read more
The head of eBay Marketplaces North America Hal Lawton is departing the company, and the President of its StubHub ticket marketplace Scott Cutler will take over while continuing to serve as head of StubHub while the company “searches for a Read more
The next two weeks will see many students returning back to school, signaling the precursor to the holiday shopping season. It also means marketplaces should wrap up testing and changes so they can provide stability to sellers who are focused Read more
