Additional tariffs imposed by the Trump administration caused U.S. customs revenue to surge to $215.24 billion in fiscal year ...

Thrasio's collapse doesn't prove that consolidating Amazon brands was a bad idea; it demonstrates that executing the strategy during an unprecedented capital bubble made success nearly impossible.

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 ...

Walmart’s marketplace has crossed 200,000 active sellers for the first time, driven by the fastest seller acquisition rate in the platform’s history. According to Marketplace Pulse data, 44,000 ...

Amazon acknowledged the Chinese seller market share on its marketplace for the first time, calling it “significant.” In the annual Form 10-K filing with the SEC, Amazon added new language to the ...

Twenty-five cents of every dollar spent shopping online goes to the Amazon third-party marketplace. Were Amazon’s marketplace an independent platform, it would be the largest online retailer in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amazon’s AI shopping assistant, Rufus, is now making product suggestions. The problem is that it is often wrong. Rufus has been available to all U.S. customers since July and beta testers since ...

Two years after its launch, Temu overtook eBay to become the world’s 2nd most visited e-commerce website. Temu, all caveats aside, is the only e-commerce company in the Top 20 most-visited list to ...

Chinese sellers have recouped the market share they lost on Amazon over the past two years. It looked like they were abandoning Amazon for a while, but that has since turned out false. The share of ...