Amazon will open a new fulfillment center in Texas, it announced on Wednesday. It will be the company’s sixth in Texas. The Fort Worth-area fulfillment center will encompass 1 million square feet and will be used to pick, pack, and Read more
If you sell clothing online, you know it has a higher return rate than many other categories. While some customers wear clothing they’ve purchased online fully intending to return them, other customers find they aren’t satisfied with the look, feel, Read more
In an article about some major changes Facebook was testing on its news feed, Geekwire noted that the social media company was also testing changes to Marketplace. “The Marketplace button replaces the Messenger button in the iOS app, which has migrated up Read more
The Senior Vice President of eBay North America called sellers the marketplace’s oxygen in a blog post where he outlined three areas of focus for the company. Hal Lawton joined eBay from The Home Depot last year. Since joining the Read more
The Amazon Prime membership program is incredibly important to the company, and this week, Amazon made a bold move by making it available to customers on a monthly pay-as-you-go plan. Previously it was available only as an annual plan (with Read more
Amazon continues to see rapid growth in product selection in key categories in large part due to third-party merchants, according to a new report from Wall Street firm RW Baird, which completed its 13th Amazon selection survey of Amazon.com (not Read more
Amazon does well in online retail, but as previously noted in our discussion of Amazon Exclusives there are ways for individual sellers to thrive on Amazon’s platform as well. Part of seller success starts with visibility in Amazon search results. Achieving effective Read more
Poshmark is the envy of larger, well established marketplaces as it lands another $25 million from investors to continue on its path to bring ecommerce to the fashion minded. The company calls itself “the largest community marketplace for fashion where Read more
Criminals are using a new twist in their efforts to defraud people online via phishing emails, and some victims suspect the fraudsters could be mining eBay user data, according to the BBC. We were alerted to the problem in this Read more
Online sellers who rely on the USPS to pick up packages from their location were disappointed recently to find the service curtailed. As a reader told EcommerceBytes, “USPS apparently has discontinued scheduled pick-ups unless the sender has at least one Read more
