ComScore reported holiday season U.S. retail ecommerce spending from desktop computers for the first 28 days of the November-December 2016 holiday season. For the holiday season-to-date, $29.7 billion has been spent online, marking a 12-percent increase versus the corresponding days Read more
Amazon announced its best-ever holiday shopping weekend for devices – including a record-breaking Cyber Monday with Amazon device sales up more than 2x over last year and millions of devices sold. Echo Dot, Amazon Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Read more
Amazon announced that UK-based businesses selling on Amazon Marketplace are expected to achieve export sales of more than 1.8 billion pounds in 2016, up 29% year-on-year. The announcement is being made at the first Amazon Academy in the UK, an Read more
Amazon.com, Inc. announced plans to open its third Nevada fulfillment center in North Las Vegas. Amazon currently employs more than 1,500 full-time hourly associates at its two existing Nevada fulfillment centers in Reno and North Las Vegas, and plans to Read more
NRF expects 137.4M Americans to shop online or hit stores this Black Friday weekend. With assortment playing a major role in retailers’ strategies this holiday, 360pi, the leader in product and price intelligence, today released a special edition holiday infographic, Read more
Major League sports have been trying to limit sales of licensed goods online and on marketplaces like Amazon since the spring, and a crackdown on marketplace sellers escalated in early November. Some merchants and manufacturers who are being negatively impacted Read more
Amazon predicts record-setting sales this year from businesses selling on Amazon as they prepare for a busy holiday season. To help keep up with demand, sellers will benefit from the Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) service and growing Seller Fulfilled Prime Read more
Amazon published a press release announcing the launch of 35 days of Black Friday deals, here’s an excerpt with a link to the full press release showing examples of the deals it will be offering as often as every five Read more
Amazon is celebrating Black Friday in the UK and invited over a thousand third-party sellers to participate – and they’ll offer double the number of deals compared to last year, Amazon UK announced: Amazon.co.uk is gearing up for its biggest Read more
Since Amazon’s founding 22 years ago, the flywheel concept has guided the company’s core principles and driven its rapid ascent. However, ProPublica recently reported that a piece of Amazon’s flywheel is under increasing pressure: the customer experience. Radial took a Read more
