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Does Amazon know what it sells?

Source: Essays - Benedict Evans
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There’s an old cliché that ecommerce has infinite shelf space, but that’s not quite true for Amazon. It would be more useful to say that it has one shelf that’s infinitely long. Everything it sells has to fit on the same shelf and be treated in the same way - it has to fit into t

Amazon Is Never Going Back to Normal

Source: Marketplace Pulse
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The same FBA moat that allows the company to provide a consistent shopping experience despite millions of sellers behind the scenes is a single point of failure. As it tries to protect that single point of failure, it needs increasingly strict quantity restrictions, high fees, an

Mailchimp moves into e-commerce

Source: eCommerce – TechCrunch
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Shopify Won’t Build a Marketplace

Source: Marketplace Pulse
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Shopify said that it would continue to develop the app this year into a “must-have shopping companion that fosters buyer loyalty and retention.” It is vague on the specifics. The company has consumer-facing brands like Shop and Shop Pay but ultimately doesn’t want Shop to be wher

Renting Amazon Customers

Source: Marketplace Pulse
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Consumers on Amazon are Amazon’s consumers as far as it is concerned, and Amazon wants to keep it that way. The reason sellers used customer data for creating lookalike audiences on Facebook was because it enabled directing them to their websites. There, they could upsell them, g

Renting Amazon Customers

Source: Marketplace Pulse
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Consumers on Amazon are Amazon’s consumers as far as it is concerned, and Amazon wants to keep it that way. The reason sellers used customer data for creating lookalike audiences on Facebook was because it enabled directing them to their websites. There, they could upsell them, g

Etsy Reaches 10 Million Sellers

Source: Marketplace Pulse
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Etsy added nearly three million sellers over the past twelve months, more than double compared to the previous period. It started 2020 with less than seven million sellers and now has ten million. The number of sellers joining the marketplace is still accelerating, continuing the

The Alpaca Brokerage API…and GoTrade

Source: Howard Lindzon
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Alpaca released the Alpaca Broker API for anyone to launch their own commission-free trading app. The Broker API provides an end-to-end brokerage experience of account opening, funding, trading, statements, and more!

Gradations Are Soothing

Source: kottke.org
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