Mississippi will get its first Amazon fulfillment center. Amazon will use the 554,000-square-foot fulfillment center to fulfill items such as lawn and garden products, toiletries, and other household consumer goods. Press release follows: Amazon.com today announced plans for the first Read more
Amazon is adding 10 cargo planes to its fleet for a total of 50 aircraft, the company announced Thursday night, enabling it to deliver packages to its customers faster. Amazon has invested millions of dollars in its air cargo operation Read more
Online marketplace Bonanza is working on a tool for sellers that replaces eBay’s discontinued Turbo Lister, but it’s also diversifying its offerings by leveraging its expertise to create tools for entrepreneurs and software developers. While obviously not on the same Read more
Today, December 19th, is National Returns Day, when UPS expects to handle 1.5 million returns – a record for the sixth consecutive year. Consumers who got a jump on online shopping in the days before Black Friday are expected to Read more
eBay announced a new feature for sellers on Tuesday – it is now displaying prices of competing listings to sellers as they are listing their own item. Experienced sellers tend to scoff at such features, believing eBay’s technology is unreliable Read more
Mercari shocked sellers today when it announced it will exit the UK market in January. The company said the selling app would continue to be available in the US and in Japan, where the company is based. Consumers and sellers Read more
Amazon will open a new fulfillment center in Alberta and a new office in Toronto, the company announced today. That makes 6,000 new jobs planned in Canada from announcements made by Amazon this year, from cloud computing and engineering roles Read more
Amazon is keeping the spending going after the holidays with its third annual “Digital Day” shopping event, which it announced today will take place on Friday, December 28th. Last-minute shoppers should note that today is the last day that Amazon Read more
Etsy’s Board of Directors amended its executive severance plan, which outline what a top executive receives when terminated, aka “golden parachutes” or “golden handshakes.” The new terms of the plan take effect on January 1, 2019. According to the filing Read more
Retail sales for the month of November grew 5% compared to November 2017, according to the National Retail Federation (NRF). Obviously online growth alone is much higher – that 5% figure includes online and offline, excluding automobile dealers, gasoline stations Read more
