Retail giants Amazon and Walmart are embracing leading edge technology in a very “old school” way: through print catalogs. Their holiday toy catalogs feature games children can play on the “metaverse” gaming platform Roblox. Amazon’s 2022 “Holiday Kids Gift Book” Read more

Over a quarter of Americans are worried about losing their gifts to porch pirates, according to C+R Research in its fourth annual package-theft report. One disturbing statistic from its survey of 2,006 people in September 2022: 1 in 7 said Read more

The USPS is actively hiring 28,000 seasonal employees ahead of the holiday season, it announced in a press release on Thursday. It’s part of its efforts to prepare for the holiday shipping and mailing season. It also said it had Read more

Amazon has responded to sellers who are upset that the company is severely restricting the amount of inventory they can send to its fulfillment centers as part of its annual holiday restock limits. On October 25, an Amazon moderator responded Read more

Etsy’s Chief Technology Officer Mike Fisher will step down at the end of the year to spend more time with his family and pursue other interests, the company announced on Thursday. Replacing Fisher will be Rachana Kumar, currently Etsy’s Vice Read more

On Monday we wrote about reports that Amazon was slashing storage space for FBA sellers, and the growing restriction of restock limits has since gotten a lot of attention in the seller community. Some said they believed Amazon had the Read more

Online marketplace Bonanza invited sellers to discount products in time for its annual holiday sale. Sellers interested in participating must create a coupon for their booth using the redemption code “Holidays2022”. Each seller can set their own discount for the Read more

Starting today, Amazon will begin offering PayPal’s Venmo service as a new payment option for shoppers in the US. A spokesperson for PayPal told EcommerceBytes that it will become available to all Amazon shoppers in the US by Black Friday. Read more

Etsy will be devoting next week to helping sellers learn how to improve their listings by offering critiques of real-life listings. Sellers can voluntarily submit one of their listings on Monday to be considered for critiques, which will be going Read more

Online sellers of a certain size may end up owing income tax in more than one state. Tax guru and small-business expert Barbara Weltman, founder of Big Ideas for Small Business, Inc., delved into this issue to see what merchants Read more