Welcome to this week’s eFocus, RepricerExpress’ weekly round-up of ecommerce and Amazon news.
Amazon’s Prime Day in six wild stats: Daniel Sparks at The Motley Fool reports that Amazon’s third annual Prime Day on July 11 was a smashing success. The ecommerce giant raked in more sales in a single day than ever before, even surpassing Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Best of all, the Prime Day event’s record sales left last year’s Prime Day in the dust. Continue reading…
Amazon is building another multi-billion-dollar business that you probably haven’t heard of: Sam Shead at Business Insider UK reports that in 2015, Amazon decided it needed to do a better job of tapping into the online business-to-business (B2B) market, worth £96.5 billion ($125.4 billion) in the UK alone. Since then, Amazon has launched a new free-to-use business-supplies marketplace called Amazon Business in the US, expanding to Germany in December 2016 and the UK in April. Continue reading…
Amazon rolls out a new way for sellers to remove negative feedback: Ryan Grant reveals that Amazon has started rolling out a new way for sellers to request the removal of negative feedback. This is not yet available to all sellers but the new format is that you will be able to request removal on the screen where you see all of your feedback. This can be viewed by going to Performance > Feedback > and then you should see an option to request removal on that page.
Amazon to double number of R&D staff in London: Graham Ruddick at The Guardian reports that Amazon is set to double the number of research and development staff it employs in London. The company is increasing the number of workers at its development centre in the capital from 450 to 900 as part of a drive to expand its UK workforce to 24,000 by the end of 2017. The R&D team in London focuses on developing Amazon’s Prime Video service. Continue reading…
Tesco takes on Amazon with same-day delivery across UK: BBC News reports that Tesco is launching a same-day delivery service across the UK to compete with online retail giant Amazon. The UK’s biggest supermarket chain already allows customers in London and the South East to order groceries for same-day delivery. Now, it says it will extend the service across most of the rest of the UK by the end of August. Customers who order online by 1.00 pm will be able to receive their groceries sometime after 7.00 pm on the same day. Continue reading…
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