Amazon has a new returns feature and advised sellers who fulfill their own orders to update their product dimensions and weight for Amazon prepaid return labels. But sellers pushed back, asking what good it would do since buyers often use Read more
The only thing shown being purchased during Amazon’s holiday commercial this year is a black tuxedo jacket, miraculously delivered in near real-time. No toys or books, no home goods or sporting equipment, no jewelry or electronics (not even an Amazon Read more
Amazon and Walmart issued press releases on Monday to announce their upcoming Black Friday deals, and both marketplaces promoted their free-shipping subscription membership programs. Walmart is offering a 50% discount on its Walmart+ plan from October 28 through December 2, Read more
Amazon grew North American sales 9% in the third quarter of 2024, year-over-year, to $95.5 billion. It grew International sales 12% in Q3 to $35.9 billion (and 12% excluding changes in foreign exchange rates). Worldwide paid units grew 12% in Read more
Amazon sellers had previously been able to filter reports by individual product (using the ASIN identifier). But the company announced on Friday that sellers can now filter business reports data by ASIN in Seller Central. The filter allows sellers to Read more
Amazon added five new visual search features to its mobile shopping app in recent months “to help you quickly find what you’re looking for on Amazon,” according to a post written by Mita Mahadevan, Director of Visual Search and Search Read more
Amazon said this week’s Prime Big Deal Days was its biggest October shopping event ever, but as usual, its press announcement was shy on details. More Prime members shopped this year’s event, “resulting in higher sales and more items sold Read more
In late July, Amazon recommended sellers send their FBA inventory to fulfillment centers in August and September in preparation for the holidays. Now some sellers are reporting issues when attempting to send their inventory in October due to storage capacity Read more
The idea of Amazon and PayPal partnering would have seemed impossible just a few years ago for several reasons – including the fact that eBay owned PayPal until it was forced to break up by activist investor Carl Icahn in Read more
Amazon is holding its 3rd annual Prime Big Deal Days sale on October 8 – 9, 2024, in which it offers exclusive “early holiday deals” exclusively for Prime members. Amazon will offer new deals as often as every 5 minutes Read more
