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Pharmapacks began as a brick-and-mortar pharmacy business in 2010, and has since grown to become the No. 1 Amazon seller in the U.S., based on the number of consumer reviews, according to research firm Marketplace Pulse.
Its signature PowerCore has been Amazon’s biggest-selling power bank the last three years, as tracked by New York-based data consultant Marketplace Pulse, and its products are stocked by Apple Inc. and Target Corp.
That was when a billion dollars seemed like a lot of money. But just nine months later, dozens of lookalike Amazon “roll-up” businesses have now raised more than $8bn to date between them, according to Marketplace Pulse, which tracks the sector.
"For a retailer without physical stores and a company that is virtually unknown to anyone but their target audience, Shein has utilised social media to reach consumers directly and become arguably the biggest digital clothing retailer," said Juozas Kaziukėnas, founder of research firm Marketplace Pulse.
“For anyone who is a small or medium-sized business, it’s physically impossible, or unprofitable, to be doing all-week nationwide delivery,’ says Juozas Kaziukėnas, founder of e-commerce research firm Marketplace Pulse. “Amazon has effectively killed Seller-Fulfilled Prime.”
China-based retailers account for about half of Amazon’s marketplace top sellers, up from 13% in 2016, according to Marketplace Pulse.
Juozas Kaziukėnas, the founder of the e-commerce research firm Marketplace Pulse, mentioned something to me a few months ago that stuck in my brain: If Amazon started today, it might not work, because it doesn’t necessarily have the best products at the cheapest prices nor is it a particularly pleasant place to shop.
Amazon “works for most consumers most of the time for most of the things,” Kaziukėnas told me. Maybe that’s not an inspiring corporate motto worthy of etching on a Jeff Bezos spaceship, but it does explain Amazon’s appeal.
“It is a historic moment,” said Juozas Kaziukenas, founder of the Marketplace Pulse, a research company. “Walmart has been around for so long, and now Amazon comes around with a different model and replaces them as a No. 1.”
Marketplace Pulse, an e-commerce research firm, estimates almost half of sellers across Amazon’s international marketplaces are based in China, though Amazon has disputed the figures.
There are now at least 69 Amazon aggregators based in at least 12 countries, and they’ve raised more than $7 billion collectively since April 2020, according to Marketplace Pulse.
“Sixty percent or more of their sales globally are actually coming from those third-party sellers,” says Juozas Kaziukenas, e-commerce analyst at Marketplace Pulse. That added up to $80.5 billion in sales in 2020 alone.
The majority of sales on Amazon are now made by independent sellers on its marketplace, through which $300bn worth of goods flowed last year, according to Marketplace Pulse.
Today, the marketplace is topping 100,000 sellers, per Marketplace Pulse data. Amazon’s Marketplace, on the other hand, counts an estimated 6.3 million total sellers worldwide, 1.5 million of which are currently active, per estimates.
Google en Facebook richten zich in hun strategie op het bieden van een platform waar derden producten kunnen verkopen, net als Etsy en een belangrijk deel van Amazon met succes doen. 'Dat is nu eenmaal hoe de meeste e-commerce wereldwijd gaat', zegt Juozas Kaziukenas, oprichter en ceo van e-commerce-onderzoeksbureau Marketplace Pulse. 'Het voordeel is dat je als eigenaar van een onlinemarktplaats geen risico draagt voor de inventaris, niet hoeft te denken aan wat je prijsstelling of je aanbod is, enzovoort. Daarmee kun je redelijk moeiteloos en tegen vrijwel nul kosten je assortiment uitbreiden.'
Since April of 2020 more than 60 of these aggregators have raised almost $6 billion, according to Marketplace Pulse, a New York firm that monitors the site.
Not everyone believes livestream selling will be the solution. “We are trying to shoehorn the type of commerce that works in China into the U.S. market now, but it’s not like users are asking for it,” says Juozas Kaziukenas, CEO of Marketplace Pulse, an e-commerce research firm. “I think to most people, it feels like a very blatant sale.” It might work on a niche level, he says, but for anything at scale? “It’s an uphill battle.”
Just three years later, there are 64 companies around the world set up to buy Amazon-based businesses, according to the research firm Marketplace Pulse. Together they have raised nearly $6bn since April 2020, it estimated.
Comparatively, Etsy isn’t even in the top 200 shopping apps or 1,800 sites in the region. Moreover, Juozas Kaziukėnas, the founder of e-commerce analytics firm Marketplace Pulse, said that his firm has found that there are only hundreds of active sellers based in Brazil.
The cost of advertising on Amazon has risen 30 per cent to $1.20 per click from $0.93 since January, according to an analysis by Marketplace Pulse.
In just the first half of 2021, almost $6 billion has been raised by aggregator businesses, observed Juozas Kaziukėnas, the founder of ecommerce research firm Marketplace Pulse. Flush with cash, these acquirers are increasingly on the hunt in China. "At a certain size of an aggregator ... it started to make sense to expand your view into looking at sellers globally. Because for an aggregator, the most important thing is where they are selling, not where they are based," Kaziukėnas told Protocol.