Amazon and Shopify together now account for approximately 50% of U.S. e-commerce. Two models each reached maturity at roughly the same time. U.S. e-commerce has quietly organized itself around both, ...

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All users who bid on, bought, listed or sold an item within the previous 12-month period. Users may register more than once, and as a result, may have more than one account. eBay defines this as: All ...

Five years after COVID-19 shocked the world into digital shopping, U.S. e-commerce has finally crawled back to the summit it briefly scaled in the spring of 2020. According to the Census Bureau’s ...

Firms acquiring successful brands on Amazon have attracted over $16 billion in capital raised. They are known as Amazon seller aggregators. The market had a breakout year in 2020 because of three ...

Temu wants to be more like Amazon, to reduce supply chain risk and offer faster shipping, while Amazon is racing to replicate Temu because it cannot ignore the fact that its low prices trump Amazon’s ...

Container shipping rates from China to the U.S. have been above $10,000 for nine months. Compared to rates pre-pandemic, they are still up ten times. While global supply chains have slightly ...

Amazon has suspended hundreds of top Chinese sellers over the past two months. The company seems to be just now enforcing its rules for blatant policy violations like manipulating customer reviews.

Amazon.com registered just 165,000 new sellers in 2025, the lowest annual total since Marketplace Pulse began collecting data in 2015 and down 44% from 2024. The decline signals Amazon’s ...

Walmart’s marketplace has crossed 200,000 active sellers for the first time, driven by the fastest seller acquisition rate in the platform’s history. According to Marketplace Pulse data, 44,000 ...

Amazon sellers now face less competition than in 2021, with over 30% more traffic per active seller available across its global marketplaces. Despite adding nearly a million new sellers annually, the ...