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.

Shein and Shopify were the biggest e-commerce winners in 2022. Their sales are still significantly above pre-pandemic levels too. Etsy was strong, Walmart with Amazon did okay, and eBay struggled the ...

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 ...

Jeff Bezos has famously said, “Your margin is my opportunity,” implying that Amazon delivered better prices by removing the costs added by the middlemen in the retail supply chain. But what is maybe ...

The seventh edition of the Year in Review report condenses the topics explored on Marketplace Pulse in 2024. Disruptors from China - Shein and Temu - and Amazon's reaction to them, the unique shopping ...

Advertising has replaced product recommendations and personalization on Amazon and other retailers' websites. They are no longer trying to guide product discovery, letting ads instead lead the journey ...

Temu has set up U.S. warehouses for sellers on its growing marketplace to offer faster delivery. Thirty days ago, Temu launched a marketplace to increase the supply of goods with faster delivery.

Amazon planned to launch marketplaces in Chile, Colombia, Nigeria, and South Africa in early 2023. It did not launch in any of those new markets.

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.

Two years after its launch, Temu overtook eBay to become the world's 2nd most visited e-commerce website.

Amazon has made approximate sales for each product public on its website and app. The new metric is social proof that helps popular products stand out.

Hundreds of software companies help businesses sell on Amazon with inventory management, product research, pricing, fulfillment, advertising, accounting, taxes, and more. The landscape map covers the ...