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...
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...
SAN FRANCISCO – OpenAI is turning ChatGPT into a virtual merchant and partnering with Etsy and Shopify. What does it mean right now and in the future? Is it a big deal, no deal, or somewhere in between? We asked the experts. “In my opinion, this is not a big...
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...
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...
McDONOUGH, GA – With Amazon exiting the FBA prep business effective January 2026, online sellers will be taking on more responsibility than ever. While the Amazon decision was not unexpected, it increases the burden on sellers and forces them to up their level...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
