With its economy soaring and marketplaces showing big signs of success, it may be time to revisit selling cross-border into India. eBay reported a strong third-quarter showing in India, but may have a lot of catching up to do to beat native marketplaces Snapdeal and Flipkart.
Amazon said it is creating 100,000 seasonal positions across its U.S. network this holiday season to meet increased demand, up from 80,000 hired in 2014.
Amazon’s dominance in the ecommerce market continues to grow rapidly over competitors, top search engines, and online retailers. See whether Amazon is the search engine for online shopping.
The launch of Amazon Business signifies Amazon’s second major move into the wholesale arena. A larger and improved version of the former AmazonSupply, the new site touts its success to encourage businesses to buy wholesale products from the site.
On my drive to work Wednesday morning, I was thinking how Yogi Berra said a lot of things that, many years later, can be translated into the retail world. So in honor of Yogi Berra, and using his jersey number, here are 8 Yogi-isms for the ecommerce world.
Uber plans to provide dozens of retail and apparel brands in New York and San Francisco with same-day delivery, and is in talks with ecommerce platforms.
And the latest shiny object is a shiny button: Amazon Dash allows Amazon Prime members to pay an additional $4.99 per product to buy that product from Amazon without lifting a finger… except for that finger the customer uses to press the Amazon Dash button.
While several U.S. cities have yet to reap the benefits of AmazonFresh, several reports are indicating the grocery delivery service will begin expanding overseas to the U.K. as early as September of this year.
Wednesday turned out to be a Prime Day for Amazon… to hold a garage sale. That was pretty much the sentiment of Amazon shoppers who turned to social media and voiced their frustration about Prime Day. But Amazon did claim Prime Day was a success.
Despite numerous consumer complaints on social media, Amazon is claiming Prime Day to be a success.