eBay’s former Vice President of Seller & Marketplace Operations landed a position at high-end luxury retail chain Neiman Marcus Group. Bob Kupbens will join Neiman Marcus in February as Executive Vice President, Chief Product and Technology Officer. He will report Read more
Amazon posted an announcement on Tuesday, “Important: Drop Shipping Policy update.” Sellers said the post made Amazon’s policy clearer, though there was a debate about whether there was actually anything new in the announcement. As ecommerce platform Shopify explains in Read more
eBay announced Wednesday it is lowering Final Value fees for certain products in the Business & Industrial category for those sellers enrolled in Managed Payments. eBay announced in part: Starting January 27, 2021, we’re lowering final value fees for sellers Read more
Walmart, which is working to leverage its brick-and-mortar stores to fulfill online orders, announced on Wednesday it is scaling the number of stores that also serve as “local fulfillment centers.” “A local fulfillment center (LFC) is a compact, modular warehouse Read more
Amazon snubbed Boston when seeking a home for its second US headquarters, but that doesn’t mean the city isn’t important to the retail/tech giant. Amazon is expanding its Boston Tech Hub with plans to create over 3,000 new corporate and Read more
PayPal found that struggling small businesses would welcome government grants to help them but they also lacked confidence in the government being able to deliver that support. PayPal reported that finding last week when it revealed three key challenges for Read more
LiveAuctioneers said 120,000 new bidders signed up to its live-auction platform each month on average in 2020, helping it facilitate the sale of 1.2 million items. LiveAuctioneers Senior Director of Marketing Suzie Ryu said auctions moved almost exclusively online last Read more
Mercari is running its first Super Bowl ad on February 7th, it announced Monday. The news comes the same day it was reported that Budweiser would not be running a Big Game ad this year – but Huggies would, a Read more
Etsy added new categories under Face Mask Accessories; Shelving; and Drink Flight barware, which was part of an update to categories and product attributes it launched this month. The marketplace explained that shoppers use categories to filter searches and when Read more
eBay executive Scott Kelliher gave a talk at Retail Innovation Week 2021 (virtually, of course) to offer advice to companies on how to advertise on the eBay platform. The head of US Brand Advertising & Partnerships for eBay Ads said Read more
