SaaS Unicorns Built on Amazon Marketplace
A dozen startups became unicorns betting on the Shopify ecosystem. Amazon has zero. A lot of capital is racing to change that.
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Shopify Tests Universal Search
Shopify now allows customers to search for items across all Shopify merchants. The Shop app is thus a complete marketplace. However, the functionality is yet to be available to all users.
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Chinese Sellers Didn’t Quit Amazon
Chinese sellers have recouped the market share they lost on Amazon over the past two years. It looked like they were abandoning Amazon for a while, but that has since turned out false.
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Amazon's Covid Bump Fades
Amazon's growth is slowing, but so has the overall e-commerce sector. Its sales are still in-line with the pre-pandemic trendline.
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Shopify Tries To Fight Buy With Prime
Shopify doesn't want merchants using Amazon's Buy with Prime. It is warning them that installing Buy with Prime removes Shopify's ability to protect against fraudulent orders and could lead to stolen customer data.
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Shopify Prime Day
Shopify doesn't do Prime Day, so Amazon is doing it for them this year. A few dozen Shopify merchants are offering Prime Day discounts for Prime members.
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Shopify Breaks The Fourth Wall
Shopify wants consumers to recognize the Shopify brand. The software powering e-commerce stores is typically invisible to consumers. Shopify is changing that by building a consumer-facing ecosystem.
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First Buy With Prime Buttons in the Wild
Buy with Prime buttons are starting to appear on first e-commerce websites. The new fulfillment and checkout service introduced by Amazon in April is now available on a selection of DTC sites.
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Resetting E-Commerce Expectations
E-commerce was meant to get significantly bigger, and thus everything was to get easier. But e-commerce only grew slightly, and yet everything - from sourcing to advertising - got harder.
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Amazon's DTC Master Plan
Amazon is attempting to build yet another flywheel to get direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands to offload storage, delivery, and returns to Amazon with a new service, Buy with Prime.
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