Oct 9, 2025 | Marketplace News
SEATTLE – An Amazon news report last week revealed a new feature called “Add to Delivery” which makes it simple to add items to an upcoming delivery with one tap. There will be no need to go through checkout again, and no added shipping fees. “Just find what...
Oct 9, 2025 | Marketplace News
SAN JOSE, CA – Will the upcoming holiday shopping season be one for the record books? Adobe released its online shopping forecast for the 2025 holiday season—making educated guesses covering the period from Nov. 1 to Dec. 31, 2025. Adobe expects U.S. online...
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...
