Black Friday hit a new record with consumers spending $9 billion online, an increase of 21.6% compared to last year’s Black Friday, according to Adobe Analytics data. Adobe analyzes one trillion visits to US retail sites, 100 million SKUs, and Read more
It’s official – the cost of shipping items internationally via USPS will go up in 2021 after the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) approved the US Postal Service price change for Competitive International products. This follows recent PRC approval of 2021 Read more
Merchants who host their store on Shopify rang up a total $2.4 billion in global sales on Black Friday (November 27, 2020), according to the ecommerce platform. Shopify’s 2020 Black Friday data is based on sales by its more than Read more
eBay executives in the US and UK shared information about what’s hot this year going into the Black Friday – Cyber Monday weekend. Jordan Sweetnam, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Americas Market at eBay, published a post on Read more
The head of eBay North America Jordan Sweetnam created a video to thank eBay sellers and shared it on social media on Thanksgiving Day. Sellers’ energy and passion saw eBay through a “crazy” last year, he said. “Thank you so Read more
Amazon experienced technical issues that impacted online sellers. One reader said they were unable to access Seller Central for order processing, noting the problem was especially impactful due to the timing, coming right before the Black Friday shopping period. The Read more
The Department of Homeland Security awarded 32 organizations awards for their anti-counterfeiting efforts. In the Ecommerce Working Group category, it awarded private-sector awards to eBay, Amazon, Alibaba, Walmart and DHL. eBay announced on Monday it had received the inaugural IPR Read more
eBay’s former Chief Marketing Officer announced in September she’d be leaving the company, later indicating she would stay through mid-October to help eBay prepare for the holiday shopping season, but she didn’t say if she had another job lined up. Read more
Online sellers can now offer PayPal Credit as a payment option for their customers on Bonanza. “Shoppers can use PayPal Credit’s digital, reusable credit line to shop at any seller’s booth on Bonanza,” the marketplace announced. “Whether you’re buying the Read more
The National Retail Federation (NRF) predicts online holiday sales will see strong growth in 2020 over last year, and among the many factors it considered in its estimates was consumer psychology. “NRF expects that online and other non-store sales, which Read more
