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9% of Amazon's sales in the Clothing, Shoes & Accessories department are from its private label brands. In response to House Antitrust Subcommittee questions following the July 29th hearing, Jeff Bezos included a breakdown by department of Amazon's private label brands share of total sales.

Retailers continue to launch marketplaces to fix their lacking online presence by offloading the work to third-party sellers; however, those marketplaces never work.

Italy, India, Germany, Japan, France, and the U.K. - Amazon's key international markets - lagged behind the U.S. in web traffic growth. While others, especially Australia and Canada, outpaced it. Across all seventeen marketplaces, Amazon added one billion monthly visits and was up 24%.

AmazonBasics products are not benefiting from the pandemic opportunity - the number of AmazonBasics best-sellers has remained flat for over twelve months. Generally, private label products do well in periods of recessions and pandemics. Amazon’s private label products did not.

Amazon started displaying business names and addresses for the millions of sellers in the U.S. marketplace on September 1st. The change puts the U.S. marketplace in line with its European, Japan, and Mexico marketplaces, where local laws require business details to be public.

Walmart Fulfillment Services (WFS) that allows third-party sellers to store and fulfill inventory from Walmart's warehouse is powering less than 0.1% of the two-day enabled products. Only 150 sellers out of the 54,000 total have started using the service launched six months ago.

U.S. e-commerce grew 44.5% in the second quarter, the fastest growth in over two decades. While online platforms like Shopify and Etsy posted record-breaking numbers, big-box retailers ready for curbside pickup and delivery grew the fastest.

Anker, a Chinese brand founded in 2011 by ex-Google engineer Steven Yang, debuted on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange on August 24th. The brand was one of the first Amazon-native brands and is now on target to $1 billion in sales in 2020.

The program that enables marketplace sellers to offer Prime shipping without the use of Amazon’s warehouses had several changes announced this week that increased performance requirements fewer sellers will be able to meet. The company has also removed pages describing the program from search engines.

Amazon is testing a change to its search suggestions that adds a link to the related brand's store page. Branded searches like "adidas" have "adidas store on amazon" as an option. Crucially, unbranded searches like "men's running shoes" also have a suggested brand store.