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Walmart's marketplace now hosts 100,000 active sellers as new sellers joining the platform continue to accelerate.

Amazon can't make the whole world shop on Amazon. But, it will try to be the retail infrastructure even when shopping happens elsewhere.

AI will take over most of the seller's tasks on Amazon. It will remove the gap between new and experienced sellers and between domestic and international sellers. But it's never been harder to launch the next Anker, and no AI has the answer.

Amazon and Shopify announced a partnership to allow Shopify merchants to add the Buy with Prime fulfillment and checkout service.

Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok are making forceful moves to stop directing people to external e-commerce websites to complete a purchase.

Walmart fulfills 50% of online orders from one of their stores which shows the importance of reducing miles traveled to deliver packages while chasing faster delivery times.

In two years, Amazon's revenue from the marketplace and ads businesses will be bigger than its online retail business. Marketplace plus ads revenue is already 81% as big as online sales.

Thousands of sellers have joined the new Shein marketplace in the U.S. Most are Amazon sellers, whom Shein appears to be actively recruiting.

The number of brands participating in Prime Day by offering discounts on their websites to shoppers checking out with Buy with Prime was up 10x this year.

Prime Day-related content on TikTok got hundreds of millions of views over the two days of Amazon's shopping event. The biggest social commerce event in the U.S. is Prime Day.