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Sellers Can Now Offer Bundle Discounts on eBay

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Sellers Can Now Offer Bundle Discounts on eBay

Kale Havervold

eBay is rolling out a new feature that lets sellers set up automatic bundle discounts if their buyers purchase more ...

Amazon Customers are Engaging with Alexa for Shopping More Than Ever

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Amazon Customers are Engaging with Alexa for Shopping More Than Ever

Kale Havervold

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy recently shed some light on the stunning growth of Alexa for Shopping in Amazon’s recent Q2 ...

The EU AI Act Is Fully Enforced as of Today

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The EU AI Act Is Fully Enforced as of Today

Ivana Soldat

Two years after the EU AI Act entered into force, the regulation becomes broadly applicable today. That sentence has been ...

UPS Fired Amazon as a Customer and Made a Billion Dollars More Doing It

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UPS Fired Amazon as a Customer and Made a Billion Dollars More Doing It

Ivana Soldat

The conventional wisdom about losing your largest customer is that it is bad. UPS spent the past 18 months testing ...

UK Online Sales Were Up 14% in June. They Just Turned Negative in the Final Week of July.

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UK Online Sales Were Up 14% in June. They Just Turned Negative in the Final Week of July.

Ivana Soldat

The UK retail data for July arrives with an almost perfect narrative arc. In June, online sales grew 14.4% year ...

Boutique Shopping May Be Making a Return

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Boutique Shopping May Be Making a Return

Kale Havervold

While online shopping is still incredibly popular and not going anywhere anytime soon, it seems many people are making the ...

Amazon and Walmart Accused of Failing to Flag Fraud

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Amazon and Walmart Accused of Failing to Flag Fraud

Kale Havervold

While Amazon and Walmart’s shopping assistants, Alexa and Sparky, can detect when a “Made in USA” label is fake, the ...

Kentucky Is About to Tax the Companies That Sell Your Data

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Kentucky Is About to Tax the Companies That Sell Your Data

Ivana Soldat

Most tax compliance stories for ecommerce sellers follow a familiar pattern. A state tweaks its economic nexus thresholds, the compliance ...

USPS Broke Its Own Postage System and Kept Charging Sellers Anyway

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USPS Broke Its Own Postage System and Kept Charging Sellers Anyway

Ivana Soldat

The USPS Automated Package Verification system has, since launching in 2017, collected more than $1.4 billion in underpaid postage and ...

Congress Is Trying to Give Amazon Sellers the Right to Sue Amazon

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Congress Is Trying to Give Amazon Sellers the Right to Sue Amazon

Ivana Soldat

Every marketplace seller has a version of the same story. The email arrives with no warning. Account suspended. Funds held. ...