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15,000 Sellers Drive Half of Amazon's 3P GMV

15,000 Sellers Drive Half of Amazon's 3P GMV

Fifteen thousand sellers get more than 100,000 orders a year on the Amazon.com marketplace in the U.S. Those few sellers are responsible for nearly half of the marketplace's hundreds of billions of dollars in sales.

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Amazon Reverifying the Identity of Its Sellers

Amazon Reverifying the Identity of Its Sellers

Amazon is reverifying the identity and business details of hundreds of thousands of third-party sellers that sell on its U.S. marketplace.

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Chinese Shopping Apps Take Over the World

Chinese Shopping Apps Take Over the World

China’s Shein or Temu are the No. 1 most-downloaded apps in half of the world’s fifty largest economies. Downloads are not revenue, but downloads indicate ambition.

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Amazon Marketplace Tech Landscape

Amazon Marketplace Tech Landscape

One hundred software tools help businesses sell on Amazon with product research, pricing, inventory forecasting, advertising management, accounting, and more.

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Shein Marketplace Launches in the U.S.

Shein Marketplace Launches in the U.S.

Shein has launched a marketplace in the U.S. and is now adding local and international sellers. Shein is one of the largest fashion retailers, quickly expanding beyond fashion and beyond being a retailer.

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Amazon's Slow Shift to Marketplace

Amazon's Slow Shift to Marketplace

Amazon continues to move away from 1P sales to 3P sellers - sellers will comprise 60% of overall units sold by the end of the year. But the shift is gradual.

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Amazon Not Yet Back to Normal

Amazon Not Yet Back to Normal

Amazon's growth is yet to return to historical levels set before the pandemic. Amazon is still growing, but its growth is weak.

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Amazon Seller Exits Evolving Past Aggregators

Amazon Seller Exits Evolving Past Aggregators

The pool of buyers acquiring Amazon sellers has expanded beyond Amazon aggregators. Thus despite challenges faced by some, the M&A market remains active since it isn't solely reliant on aggregators.

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Amazon's $35 Billion B2B Marketplace

Amazon's $35 Billion B2B Marketplace

Amazon's B2B marketplace Amazon Business now drives roughly $35 billion in annualized gross sales. More than half of those sales are from third-party sellers.

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Foreign Sellers Outnumber the US on Walmart

Foreign Sellers Outnumber the US on Walmart

Sellers from China, India, Canada, and the U.K. outnumbered the U.S. on the Walmart marketplace over the past year.

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