Amazon's Unhelpful AI Shopping Assistant
Amazon's AI shopping assistant is great at answering questions about a specific product but cannot help sort through the endless aisles of its infinite catalog.
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Top 5 E-Commerce Marketplaces in 2024
Amazon, Walmart, and TikTok Shop are the three top marketplaces for U.S. brands. However, if Temu and TikTok achieve their goals this year, they will overtake Walmart in the marketplace ranking.
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Amazon To Launch a Direct-From-China Marketplace
Amazon will launch a Temu, Shein, and AliExpress competitor featuring low-price items shipped directly from China. Amazon's main quest remains Prime, but it has accepted a new side quest.
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Amazon Launches in South Africa
Amazon launched in South Africa today. The marketplace is Amazon's first in sub-Saharan Africa, bringing the total number of active markets to 22.
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Amazon’s Fast Delivery Moat
Amazon's same-day and next-day delivery is widening the gap between it and the rest of e-commerce.
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Amazon Fees Only Go Up
Amazon offers dozens of services that sellers and brands can use to grow their businesses. It insists these are optional, and strictly speaking, that is correct. But while Amazon itself doesn't require them, it has created an ecosystem that does.
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Temu Marketplace Launches in the U.S.
Temu has started onboarding sellers with inventory in local warehouses rather than shipping from China. But there are no U.S. sellers yet. Instead, it is Chinese sellers with inventory in the U.S.
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E-Commerce Needs Walmart
Walmart is Amazon’s only competitor. Everyone else is too small, too niche, or not a good substitute. A bigger Walmart means a better alternative to Amazon, which means a better e-commerce market.
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Temu Marketplace Inviting US Sellers
Temu will open its marketplace to U.S. sellers in March and extend to European sellers soon after. The number one most-downloaded shopping app is expanding beyond Chinese sellers.
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Amazon Paused Global Expansion in 2023
Amazon planned to launch marketplaces in Chile, Colombia, Nigeria, and South Africa in early 2023. It did not launch in any of those new markets.
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