Oct 1, 2025 | Marketplace News
SAN FRANCISCO – With relatively little fanfare, OpenAI announced this week that it is turning ChatGPT into a virtual merchant that will guide customers to products on Etsy and Shopify. As reported in U.S. News and World Report, the move is an attempt to generate new...
Oct 1, 2025 | Marketplace News
SEATTLE – Amazon Web Services (AWS), SAP SE unveiled plans last week to make SAP Sovereign Cloud capabilities available on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, a new, independent cloud for Europe backed by a planned $7.8B investment from Amazon. The collaboration...
Sep 24, 2025 | Marketplace News
SEATTLE – Amazon is expanding its third-party logistics (3PL) product, Amazon Multi-Channel Fulfillment (MCF), to support merchants on SHEIN, Shopify, and Walmart. The expansion builds on Amazon MCF’s success in enabling fulfillment for merchants on other sales...
Sep 24, 2025 | Marketplace News
MINNEAPOLIS – Major retailers are going all in on fourth quarter 2025. Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days are set to start on Oct. 7, but Target Corp’s Target Circle Week beats that by two days, starting on Oct. 5 for a seven-day run. Guests can shop for deals in-store and...
Sep 24, 2025 | The Wynning Path
LAS VEGAS – As an exhibitor, speaker, and attendee, as well as a member of the advisory council, Liz Downing has experienced Prosper from multiple perspectives. As brand director, she works with the Prosper team to keep it growing and evolving. Fortunately, a lot went...
Sep 17, 2025 | Marketplace News
SEATTLE – The heat of the all-important fourth quarter got turned up a notch with Amazon’s announcement this week that Prime Big Deal Days will return October 7-8, kicking off the holiday shopping season with deals and deep discounts. Starting October 7 at 12:01 a.m....
Sep 17, 2025 | Marketplace News
LAS VEGAS – Back in March 2025 at Prosper in Las Vegas, Michelle Barnum Smith of Prosper exhibitor TikTok Shop Sellers confidently declared: “TikTok is not going away. People need to lean in and get their money.” At the time it seemed unlikely, considering that...
Sep 17, 2025 | Marketplace News
by Shannon Curley PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Peak season is always a pressure test for Amazon sellers, but Q4 2025 is shaping up to be a different beast entirely. Between record demand, higher tariffs on imports, the elimination of the de minimis exemption, and mounting...
Sep 12, 2025 | Marketplace News
SEATTLE – Changes are coming later this month with Amazon officials transitioning to a Voice of the Customer (VOC) section on Seller Central. The updates integrate more data, leveraging AI for analysis, and phasing out the older Customer Reviews dashboard. The full...
Sep 12, 2025 | Marketplace News
SEATTLE – The Prime Invitee program, which enrolled new members from 2009 to 2015, has allowed those members to share free shipping with friends and family. As reported by the New York Times and elsewhere, Amazon plans to end the program on Oct. 1, right before the...
Sep 12, 2025 | Marketplace News
News outlets are confirming what many experts have predicted; namely that the Trump administration’s tariffs are squeezing the flow of products into the United States. The New York Times reports that through August, China exported $141 billion in goods to Africa,...
Mar 12, 2025 | Marketplace News
March 14, 2025 LAS VEGAS – Amazon Ships in Product Packaging (SIPP) is back at Prosper Show 2025. SIPP is an Amazon program that enables sellers who use Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) to deliver products to customers in their own brand packaging. SIPP aims to reduce...
