Amazon Business, which now drives over $35 billion in annualized gross sales, announced new benefits of the Business Prime program and said the expanded benefits can help businesses save nearly $1,000 per year as well as streamline operations and simplify Read more
Amazon moderators acknowledged the company restricted some FBA listings on a regional basis after sellers reported the issue on the Amazon discussion boards. A reader told EcommerceBytes last month, “The problem involves a system glitch in Amazon’s FBA buy-ability logic Read more
Consultants discussed new Walmart and Amazon marketplace policies, with one change garnering praise and the other getting panned. Walmart just put a policy into place for sellers who use its multichannel fulfillment service, and Amazon’s controversial DD+7 policy rolls out Read more
Online shoppers are right to be skeptical about discounts offered during sales like Black Friday (as this article from 2024 shows). But now Amazon’s Rufus AI shopping assistant may help buyers spot deceptive pricing. Amazon said since launching last year, Read more
It’s nearly impossible for sellers to take a day off from shipping orders because of strict delivery deadlines set by marketplaces. But Amazon is now giving sellers who fulfill their own orders a break with a new Fulfillment by Merchant Read more
Amazon launched the Grade and Resell service for FBA sellers in 2021, and this month it expanded the program to additional categories “with smarter features.” Amazon describes the program as follows: “The FBA Grade and Resell program allows you to Read more
Amazon announced a new returns dashboard for sellers to get “clearer insights into your returns and inventory recovery,” in one central location, regardless of channel. It comes at an opportune time: Amazon’s extended holiday returns policy requires that items purchased Read more
Amazon grew sales 13% in the third quarter of 2025, year-over-year, including its AWS service. By segment, Amazon grew North American sales 11% to $106.3 billion and International 14% to $40.9 billion. AWS segment sales increased 20% year-over-year to $33 Read more
Sellers received good news this week when Amazon refunded them for mysterious “Other” fees that they had been billed for in August and again in September. A reader who had alerted us to the issue last month wrote today and Read more
Update 10/28/2025: Amazon announced today it will reduce its corporate workforce by 14,000 roles overall (not providing the number of employees impacted) and said in part, “The reductions we’re sharing today are a continuation of this work to get even Read more
