From an article on Bloomberg today: In its race to catch Amazon.com Inc. in online retailing, Walmart Inc. issued misleading e-commerce results and fired an executive who complained the company was breaking the law, according to a whistle-blower lawsuit. Walmart shares fell as much as 2 percent. Tri Huynh, a former director of business development at Walmart, claims he was …
Fascinating post in the Reddit ecommerce section today from an ex-Amazon seller. OK, so it’s actually a phrase not a word, but other than that you get the idea. Sell on Amazon at your (brand’s) peril: As an ex-Amazon seller, Amazon Basics is an ugly word. It boils down to Amazon analyzing 3rd party seller …
If you don’t have a WSJ subscription, the article in today’s Review section about Amazon might be worth taking it out for: https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-takes-over-the-world-1506104228 One choice quote from the article: “Google seems to have a commanding market position when it comes to search functions… 90% share in the category in Europe … in the US [it’s] 64%. …
It started as an online bookseller and many thought it would never go beyond that. After all, being able to buy almost any book ever published, online, is already quite a feat. But Amazon’s ambitions turned out to run far deeper, and what we are witnessing now with the stunning Whole Foods acquisition is probably …
It’s still relatively early in Amazon’s advertising evolution. The company has quietly come on in recent years as a digital advertising contender, building out ad tech for publishers while helping marketers target their customers with ads using the e-commerce giant’s robust data pool. Over the past 18 months or so, Amazon focused in on search …
Amazon doesn’t reveal much about its advertising business. It buries its advertising sales in its Other category, under which it also reports incomes from co-branded credit card agreements. In any case, only certain advertising services sales are included in the Other category, making the picture even murkier. So how big is Amazon’s ad business? It …
As if US retail wasn’t in trouble enough with the growing shift toward ecommerce, it’s also under threat from the advent of cheap international shipping, particularly the ePacket arrangement with China. Indeed this arrangement threatens US-based ecommerce companies themselves, not just US brick-and-mortar. Good article on the topic in today’s NYTimes: That article focuses on …