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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Temu has started onboarding U.S. and European brands to its marketplace. Its challenge is that most brands don’t want to be in the same shopping cart with Temu. Now, nearly two years since Temu’s ...

Amazon and its sellers sold $700 billion worth of goods in 2023. Gross merchandise volume (GMV) has more than doubled in four years; most of that growth came from the third-party marketplace.