These days, there’s an app for everything – even ones that help online shoppers schedule their deliveries. Doorman is one such app – the service acts as a middleman between the customer and the retailer shipping the goods. “Doorman is a package Read more
Amazon issued a press release the day after Christmas boasting about the performance of what was its 20th holiday season, though it didn’t reveal overall growth rates or sales figures. Wall Street analyst Colin Sebastian of Robert W. Baird & Read more
Newsweek published an opinion piece on Christmas Day, “Why Should New Yorkers Subsidize Amazon?” The author questions the tax breaks New York has given the Washington-based company as incentives to open operations in the state and employ New York residents. Newsweek said Read more
Long gone are the days when online sellers would eagerly await eBay’s free listing day each December 25th, which was meant to boost listings for post-Christmas shoppers. Now every seller gets a certain amount of free listings throughout the year, Read more
eBay is updating its shipping calculator in preparation forthcoming rate changes from FedEx and UPS, and it reminded sellers to adjust their shipping costs to reflect the new rates. In addition to their annual rate increases, UPS and FedEx are Read more
While to some, Christmas Day may signal the end of the holiday shopping season, Amazon is expecting a busy day thanks in part to its portfolio of digital content. The marketplace’s UK arm said it expected sales on December 25, Read more
Online holiday shopping hit $48.3 billion to date, a 15% increase over corresponding days last year, according to comScore, which released data on the first 51 days of the November-December 2014 holiday season. The most recent week (Dec. 15-21) posted Read more
It wouldn’t be the holiday season without bad weather hitting parts of the country, but checking in with shipping carriers on Tuesday, it appears things are going much more smoothly than last December when some customers did not receive their Read more
CommerceHub has signed an agreement to acquire Mercent, which provides digital-marketing services to online retailers. A credible source who wished to remain anonymous said Mercent had laid off a significant number of staff 2 months ago. CommerceHub, a subsidiary of Read more
FedEx signed an agreement to acquire GENCO, one of the largest third-party logistics providers in North America. GENCO processes more than 600 million returned items annually from many of the world’s leading brands. Online sellers may be familiar with GENCO Marketplace as Read more
