Just two years ago, the battle lines in e-commerce seemed clear. Amazon dominated through speed and convenience, Temu and Shein disrupted through price. Today, both sides are sprinting toward what the ...

Amazon's introduction of API fees for third-party developers represents another margin squeeze on sellers, this time arriving indirectly through the software tools that have become essential to ...

Just two years ago, the battle lines in e-commerce seemed clear. Amazon dominated through speed and convenience, Temu and Shein disrupted through price. Today, both sides are sprinting toward what the ...

The original class of Amazon Aggregators now span from bankruptcies to success to pivots. None call themselves aggregators anymore. Thrasio and the more than 100 firms that followed it set out to ...

Five years after COVID-19 shocked the world into digital shopping, U.S. e-commerce has finally crawled back to the summit it briefly scaled in the spring of 2020. According to the Census Bureau’s ...

Walmart’s marketplace reached 150,000 active sellers as new sellers joining the platform continue to accelerate, attracted by growing GMV. According to Marketplace Pulse data, Walmart added more than ...

In 2024 — again — nearly a million new sellers joined the Amazon marketplace. There is no shortage of interest despite Amazon’s slower growth, increasing competition, and more complex rules to achieve ...

Container shipping rates from China to the U.S. have been above $10,000 for nine months. Compared to rates pre-pandemic, they are still up ten times. While global supply chains have slightly ...

Firms acquiring successful brands on Amazon have attracted over $16 billion in capital raised. They are known as Amazon seller aggregators. The market had a breakout year in 2020 because of three ...

Amazon has added an AI-powered shopping assistant customers could use to ask questions about the products. It is Amazon’s first move in the AI arms race. The section “Looking for specific info?” on a ...

Chinese sellers now represent 50.03% of Amazon’s global active seller base, marking the first time they’ve crossed the 50% threshold across all of Amazon’s international marketplaces. But while ...

Temu is the most-downloaded shopping app in the U.S. Launched by China’s Pinduoduo in early September, it is the latest marketplace to bring China-made goods to Western consumers. Temu competes with ...