As the popularity of in-store and curbside pickup is growing, ecommerce giant Rakuten announced it is acquiring Curbside, a service that helps stores and restaurants offer customers “order ahead” service and uses something called “predictive arrival technology” to set itself Read more
BQool launched a new chrome extension for its product-research tool BigTracker. When users search Amazon for a particular product, the BigTracker extension aggregates all of the results on a single page, displaying the Buy Box price, Sales Rank, Estimated Sales, Read more
Etsy held its annual shareholder meeting this morning. It webcast the event, but only shareholders as of the record date were allowed to attend the virtual meeting. We checked in with Etsy Investor Relations, and a spokesperson provided us with Read more
eBay launched a program that lets users sell their gold and silver to its partner through the eBay Bullion Buyback program. Users simply take a photo and send it to the program with a short description of the item. eBay’s Read more
Discogs is going down the same path as Etsy and eBay by becoming a payments intermediary, and will use the same payments processor to power Discogs Payments that eBay chose. Discogs is known for its user-created catalog of “physical” music Read more
CNN reported the possibility of a labor strike of UPS union workers that could disrupt the economy, estimating that shipments UPS transports equal an estimated 6% of the nation’s GDP (Gross Domestic Product). For online retail, that’s bad news, as Read more
eBay named Gail Frederick the new General Manager of its Portland office, which is an eBay Center of Excellence and an innovation hub specifically for its mobile development and eBay for Charity teams. Announcement follows: Since joining eBay in 2014, Read more
Mercari launched seller badges designed to give buyers an indication of seller reliability. The badges display information about sellers, including: how long they’ve been a member of the marketplace, if they ship items quickly, if they deliver as promised, and Read more
For the many sellers who use WordPress to host their websites, there’s now BigCommerce for WordPress. BigCommerce launched its first “Commerce-as-a-Service” offering – meaning sellers don’t have to host their product catalog on their own servers. As a spokesperson explained, Read more
Amazon reminded sellers of its Fair Pricing policy after a story went viral about a woman who said she was charged $7,400 for shipping for some boxes of toilet paper. The woman said Amazon did not initially do anything about Read more
