Imagine serving nearly 270 million customers a week in 28 countries and generating $500.3 billion in revenue. Those are Walmart’s stats cited by its CEO Doug McMillon at last week’s annual shareholder meeting. “We are a growth company,” he said Read more
eBay is running a promotion for buyers that kicked off on Saturday and ends today – it’s limited to *invited* members of its eBay Bucks program. A trusted tipster sent us the promotion: members receive 8% in eBay bucks on Read more
eBay sent an email to sellers on Friday enticing them to change their return policies using the subject line: “Save on labels when you change your return policy.” For sellers who activate the promotion and list items with 30-day free Read more
eBay CEO Devin Wenig answered shareholder questions after he gave a presentation following this morning’s annual meeting. eBay webcast the event, but the audio went dead for the last minutes of the broadcast during the entire Q&A portion. During the Read more
PayPal has acquired Jetlore, an ecommerce service that helps retailers offer personalized search results using “Predictive Ranking,” which matches each customer’s unique preferences directly to inventory in real time. The acquisition is an effort to grow PayPal Marketing Solutions, which Read more
A government agency took an unusual step of getting directly involved in ecommerce matters. The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requested the heads of eBay and Amazon do more to prevent the sale of fake set-top boxes on their marketplaces. Read more
eBay sent 20 small businesses who sell on its marketplace to Washington, DC, to lobby their legislators as part of its 13th annual Advocacy Day event. The focus of this year’s “DC Fly-in” event was online sales tax and trade Read more
Amazon is improving package-tracking capabilities, according to Cnet. Buyers have always been able to get detailed tracking through the numbers provided by shipping carriers. But Amazon had provided less transparency for orders shipped through its own delivery system – “Shipped Read more
Amazon announced today it will open its first fulfillment center in Oklahoma. The more than 600,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility will be used to fulfill small items such as books, household items and toys. The center will be located at Will Rogers Read more
The first paragraph of a new report from the National Retail Federation and EuroCommerce is grim: “The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) sets out changes to almost every area of customer data processing. Retailers with storefronts, websites, mobile apps or Read more
