Amazon’s new approach to its fulfillment centers is working, according to an announcement on Monday where it boasted it is delivering its largest selection of products to US Prime members at the fastest speeds ever. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy revealed Read more
Amazon is allowing a select number of third-party services to send notifications to sellers directly on Amazon Seller Central, helping sellers get important information from service providers faster. The news was shared with developers at this week’s Amazon Selling Partner Read more
Amazon announced it is working to bring USPS Ground Advantage (GA) to its Buy Shipping shipping-label service. As it noted in Thursday’s announcement, GA consolidates what was formerly First Class Package Service, Parcel Select Ground, and Parcel Select Cubic. The Read more
“Launching Amazon Prime and independent sellers on Amazon were big bets that a lot of people didn’t understand at first. It’s the same thinking that we’re bringing to one of our latest big ideas, one that I’m incredibly excited about: Read more
Prosecutors provided additional details about Ed Rosenberg’s role in the Amazon bribery scheme to which he pleaded guilty in federal court on March 30th to one count of conspiracy, when he admitted he had bribed Amazon employees. Rosenberg, a consultant Read more
Amazon is putting the “eye” in AI to help it detect damaged products so they won’t be shipped to customers. Scientists at Amazon Fulfillment Technologies in Germany are developing the technology, and the company hopes to deploy the damage-detection software Read more
An Amazon seller received a disturbing message from a buyer, which the seller posted on the Amazon discussion boards on Monday: “Hello, I just wanted to send something your way that I found rather interesting. I get solicited by Amazon Read more
Amazon is forcing sellers to comply with its policy governing children’s products, even in some cases where the sellers – and some manufacturers – say the products are designed to be used by adults. In order to comply, sellers must Read more
Amazon is lowering standard FBA rates for all low-price products in 2 months. While sellers who use Amazon FBA fulfillment can currently apply for lower rates for certain items through FBA “Small and Light,” Amazon will end that program on Read more
If you own a small business and subscribe to Amazon Prime for your personal purchases, Amazon will now allow you to extend those Prime benefits to business purchases made through your Amazon Business account. The company explained the new benefit Read more
