Paytm Mall marketplace, latest entrant into India’s online retail market, has recently removed 85,000 sellers. "There are no faceless names, no ABC whom no one knows, no sellers who do hanky-panky," said Amit Sinha, COO of Paytm, after the change. This is exactly the change we've been vocal about for a while - anyone-can-sell-anything marketplaces are not good enough anymore.
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One of the most commonly asked questions about the Amazon marketplace, apart from how many sellers are selling on the platform, is how many sellers have sales greater than $100 million, or more than $1 million. We finally wanted to tackle this question.
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Amazon updated the Buyer-Seller Messaging system on March 28th to allow customers to opt-out of unwanted emails from sellers. Now asking for reviews was deemed nonessential, and customers could put a stop to it. Because of this since March the marketplace sellers feedback volume has decreased by 37 percent.
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Retail Global announced that Marketplace Pulse founder Juozas Kaziukėnas will take the stage and present a keynote at Retail Global Las Vegas 2017. Joe's keynote, titled "The Future of Marketplaces", will focus on the trends in leading global marketplaces. It will build on top of our published articles and research, and also include exclusive findings.
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The marketplace contribution is expected to grow from 53 percent in 2016 to 70 percent in 2023. In just three years the marketplace is estimated to double - from $103 billion in sales in 2016 to $212 billion in 2019.
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One of biggest mysteries about the Amazon marketplace is just how big it is. The only time Amazon has ever publicly mentioned this was in January 2015 when they said that there are more than 2 million sellers. The thing is, today there are at least 4 million sellers. Likely as much as 5 million sellers. But just like the 2 million figure from 2015, this is a meaningless metric.
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Given the current list of top sellers how many of them were also top sellers a few months ago, or as far as two years ago. From the current top 1,000 sellers on Amazon US roughly 50% were in the top 1,000 two years ago too.
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The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Nike has agreed to sell some of its products directly on Amazon.com. This Nike deal is special because it is one of the largest brands ever which couldn't no longer ignore Amazon. For as much as they invested into brick-and-mortar stores and their own online presence, Amazon has grown too big to just leave for third-party sellers to have a go at.
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For the first time ever eBay has released US state-by-state data showcasing sales and number of sellers statistics. 6.6 million American sellers sold $27.97 billion worth of goods in 2016. On average each seller sold $4,196 worth of goods. Top 5 states California, New York, Florida, Texas, New Jersey are leading in terms of sales. By adding the 6th state Illinois they together add up to 50 percent of the market.
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Amazon has announced their biggest acquisition yet, by offering to pay $13.7 billion for the Whole Foods grocery chain. This sent the whole retail industry into a shock, eroding billions in market capitalization. Yet most of it was out of fear of the unknown, since it is not immediately obvious why Amazon would go that route. Whatever the end result is going to be, we think ultimately this acquisition will lead to a platform.
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