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
eBay has built an entire marketing campaign around the boxes sent to its customers with the Fill Your Cart with Color campaign. But it has no control over the packaging sellers use to send eBay orders (and every day there Read more
eBay just launched a suite of tools for its marketing affiliates that make it easier for them to include tracking links and even lets them conduct retargeting. The new tools include Smart Placements that identify visitors and update items displayed Read more
Etsy is looking to facilitate more Forums discussions and is surveying sellers on how it can improve the boards where users gather to ask and answer questions, learn about site changes, and chat. Etsy wanted to know if participants believed Read more
Amazon is opening a new fulfillment center in Canada. The 600,000 square-foot warehouse in the Calgary area is the first in Alberta and will fulfill items “ranging from aviator sunglasses to zebra costumes.” It joins 6 other fulfillment centers in Read more
The new tools for finding items on eBay using images are now live, including Find It on eBay and Image Search. eBay has been investing in technologies like Artificial Intelligence in an attempt to show shoppers what it thinks they Read more
UPS will raise rates by an average of 4.9% on December 24, 2017. It cited its continued investment in its network to support customer growth and service needs. UPS will also increase certain surcharges in July of 2018. Press release Read more
Amazon announced today its third-quarter sales (July, August, September) grew 34% year-over-year to $43.7 billion. Excluding Whole Foods Market and the impact from foreign exchange rates, net sales increased 29% compared with third quarter 2016. Excerpt of press release follows: Read more
The US Postal Service expects to deliver 10% more packages during the holiday period than last year, it announced on Wednesday. Between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, the USPS expects to deliver 850 million packages, and it expects to deliver Read more
