Amazon FBA built your business. Now it’s squeezing your margins. With Sponsored Products costs trending up and fees eating into every sale, a growing number of established Amazon operators are making a calculated move: building direct-to-consumer (DTC) channels...
How to Build an Email List as an Amazon Seller Without Getting Banned Amazon owns the buyer relationship on its marketplace. So if your brand leans entirely on Amazon traffic, reviews and ad performance, you’re building on rented land. As ad costs climb and...
How to Negotiate Payment Terms and Defect Rates With Overseas Manufacturers Every dollar locked in a 30/70 payment structure is a dollar you can’t put to work. You can’t use it to launch a new SKU, fund an ad campaign or ride out a slow quarter. For...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A few weeks ago, I spent three days in Washington, D.C., meeting with congressional staffers and policymakers through Amazon’s Sellers in Your Community program. Amazon arranged the meetings, but it did not hand us talking points or ask us to...
NEW YORK – Riskified, an e-commerce fraud detection and risk intelligence company, recently released “Rewriting the Rules on Returns”. The study explores how consumer attitudes around e-commerce returns are evolving in the age of artificial intelligence (AI)....
NEW YORK – Glance, InMobi’s consumer technology company, is launching a first-to-market agentic commerce experience across millions of Samsung smart televisions in the United States. The integration built on Glance’s proprietary AI platform runs natively on...
BENTONVILLE, AR – With an expanded assortment now available through Walmart.com, customers in Mexico can shop a broader selection of products, discover new brands, and access options that were previously unavailable through Walmart. “We’re focused on...
NEW YORK – Moody’s Corp connected intelligence is now available in Amazon Quick – a personalized, proactive AI assistant – through a dedicated Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. The integration gives customers operating in Amazon Web Services (AWS) direct access to...
BENTONVILLE, AR – The Walmart Deals event will run from June 22-28 and the timing is not a coincidence. After much speculation in Q1, Amazon officially moved Prime Day into June this year, earlier than its July timing in 2025. Target also moved up Circle Deal...
BENTONVILLE, AR – Walmart recently celebrated more than one million drone deliveries completed to hundreds of thousands of customers. Company officials declared in Walmart News that, “What started as a pilot just a few years ago has officially taken off, giving...
SEATTLE – Amazon is expanding its less-than-truckload (LTL) freight in the U.S. beyond its inbound-to-Amazon offering—to any type of destination, including third-party warehouses, distribution centers, and retail partners. It’s all part of the suite of offerings...
BARCELONA, ES — The Connected Consumer 2026 report from Athos Commerce and Drapers revealed how AI adoption, fragmented shopping journeys, and rising consumer expectations are reshaping the future of fashion e-commerce. The findings highlight a significant shift in...
BELLEVUE, WA – Prosper exhibitor Xnurta, an agentic AI-powered retail media management platform for brands, sellers, and agencies, has launched The Agentic Retail Media Council, a new industry initiative designed to establish standardized frameworks for...
SEATTLE – Amazon Prime Day returns on June 23 at 12:01 a.m. PDT and runs through June 26, kicking off summer with millions of deals for Prime members. Amazon promises new deals as often as every five minutes during select periods throughout the event. New...
