How do you hold a large corporation – and its executives – accountable for deceiving customers? Last week, the FTC was satisfied with a multi-billion dollar fine and restitution to consumers without forcing the alleged “culprits” (Amazon and two of Read more
The Canadian Federal government is planning to cut postal services, including the elimination of door-to-door delivery. In response, Canada Post union workers went on strike immediately. Both developments have an impact on online sellers inside and outside of Canada. Canadians Read more
Walmart will run a sale the same week Amazon is running its Prime Big Deal Days. Unlike Amazon, Walmart’s sale is not limited to its Plus members, writing in its announcement, “No Membership Required.” Amazon is running this year’s Prime Read more
Following eBay’s acquisition of Caramel in February, “an end-to-end online automotive transaction solution provider,” eBay will acquire consumer-to-consumer social marketplace Tise, headquartered in Oslo, Norway. It did not not disclose financial terms of either deal. eBay said it expects to Read more
eBay and Etsy are making changes to some of their legal agreements. eBay updated its API License Agreement for third-party developers, including adding restrictions to the use of AI content. And Etsy is updating its Payments, Privacy and Cookies policies, Read more
Amazon’s agentic AI-powered Seller Assistant tool that it introduced last year can now reason, plan, and help sellers take action, the company planned to announce today at its Accelerate seller conference. The company made bold claims about how Seller Assistant Read more
Amazon announced the date of its 4th annual Prime Big Deal Days, boasting it would include “millions of early deals exclusively for Prime members” in Monday’s announcement. It’s Amazon’s first sale exclusively for Prime members since restricting how shoppers could Read more
Amazon uses Machine Learning technology to advise sellers which of the products they sell would be a good fit for its fulfillment service through a feature called Amazon FBA Enrollment Opportunities. On Tuesday, it announced it had integrated FBA Enrollment Read more
eBay lost General Manager of Collectibles Mayank Hajela to Walmart last year as the latter company expands its collectibles category. On Thursday, Walmart live-streamed its first episode of “Collector’s Night,” its new Thursday-night series on Walmart Live. Live commerce platform Read more
When Amazon wrote about its shopping app’s image-search feature last year, it demonstrated how Amazon Lens could help you find an item you see in real life “such as your friend’s magnetized fridge calendar that’s perfect for organizing you or Read more
