Welcome to this week’s eFocus, RepricerExpress’ weekly round-up of ecommerce and Amazon news.
Amazon data centre fault knocks websites offline temporarily: Dave Lee at BBC News reports that a failure at one of Amazon’s major US data centres caused several high-profile websites and services to be knocked offline. On Tuesday, sites such as Quora, a Q&A forum, and Trello, which helps people monitor productivity, went down. After several hours, Amazon said it had rectified the problem but did not make the reason behind the disruption public. Continue reading…
At the Oscars, Amazon won big time (and Jeff Bezos got a funny shout-out): Emily Canal reported that The Oscars made history Sunday night, and not just for the Best Picture award blunder. Amazon Studios won three Oscars at the 89th Academy Awards for Manchester by the Sea and The Salesman; the first win for any streaming studio. Host Jimmy Kimmel did not ignore that milestone and included a quip about Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos in his opening monologue. Continue reading…
Amazon has filed a patent for flying warehouses: Dan Wilson at Tamebay reports that Amazon has submitted a patent in the US for airborne warehouses. The roving airborne warehouses or AFCs (airborne fulfilment centres) would cruise around and ensure that the swarm of drones are kept well stocked with goods for delivery. The patent application also envisages that supply crafts would service the AFCs to ensure that they didn’t run out of stock to deliver and wouldn’t need to make unnecessary return trips to base for restocking. Continue reading…
Amazon goes to war against scam sellers and appears to be winning: Wade Shepard at Forbes reports that some sellers have been running a scam on Amazon. A seller opens a new merchant account on Amazon, then begins selling a large quantity of popular items at unbelievably low prices. When a customer places an order, the seller claims that the item was shipped and will arrive in around three or four weeks, and often provides a false tracking number. But they don’t actually ever ship anything. Continue reading…
51% UK retailers: cross-border ecommerce more complex after Brexit: Ecommerce News reports that according to a survey conducted by Global-E, Over half of retailers in the United Kingdom think cross-border trading will become more complex when the country leaves the European Union. However, 44 percent of retailers who sell abroad will continue with their existing cross-border ecommerce operations, while 23 percent plans to invest more in growing their business outside the UK. Continue reading…
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