Pricing and delivery are key influences on holiday shoppers this year according to a new survey, which found that 63% of shoppers will purchase from Amazon this season, 60% will purchase from Walmart, and 45% will buy goods from eBay. Read more
Amazon officially opened its new development center in England today where engineers will work on delivery drones, among other projects. Ultimately 400 “learning scientists, knowledge engineers, data scientists, mathematical modellers, speech scientists and software engineers” will work on projects ranging Read more
eBay is opening its Promoted Listings seller advertising program to the Motors Parts & Accessories category, it announced on Wednesday. Some sellers like the program as a way to pay for extra visibility, while others believe it is having a Read more
Etsy is trying to make it easier for sellers to promote their shops and listings on social media sites with a new tool that centralizes the management of posts across social platforms. It makes suggestions on what sellers should share, Read more
Amazon kicked off the holiday shopping season today, November 1, 2017, by opening its Black Friday Deals store. It also announced its 2017 Holiday Gift Guides, including the new Business Gift Guide by Amazon Business, the Amazon Handmade Gift Shop, Read more
eBay is kicking off a “First Minute Holiday Shopping” marketing campaign today, November 1, 2017. It’s promoting deals and price-matching from pre-approved merchants, as well as focusing on fast delivery. eBay is introducing five new marketing spots “spotlighting how early Read more
eBay promised to protect the accounts of sellers located in the Northeast who were impacted by storms Sunday and Monday that took down power for 1 million utility customers. As of Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 31, over 600,000 customers remained without Read more
eBay announced it has added category filters to its Watch List feature, which lets shoppers add items to a list for future reference when they don’t wish to purchase them right away. The new feature lets shoppers filter their Watch Read more
Consumers are more confident this year, and all signs point to a busy holiday season, according to NRF CEO Matthew Shay. The National Retail Federation closely tracks consumer shopping trends for both online and offline commerce and recently released the Read more
Amazon will open a new fulfillment center in Macon, Georgia, which will be the fourth such facility in the state. The more than 1,000,000-square-foot facility will fulfill large-sized items including household furniture, sporting equipment and gardening tools. Press release follows: Read more
