Amazon Got Its $600 Million Tariff Refund.
Amazon received about $600 million in tariff refunds in the second quarter, and it will hand money back to shoppers…
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Jorge Callejo Amazon Ads Hits 19.8 Billion Dollars: The Storefront Is Leaving the Search Bar
Amazon has just put a price and a performance number on the thing sellers have been watching nervously for two…
Amazon Makes Sellers Tag AI Generated People in Listing Images
A single state law in New York has just rewritten how every Amazon seller on the planet has to handle…
The World Cup Turned TikTok Shop UK Into a Memorabilia Machine
A tournament summer put sports collectibles into TikTok Shop’s UK feed at scale. For operators, the lesson is less about…
Amazon’s AI Recommender Ignores Your Organic Rank
A single analyst’s read of Alexa for Shopping suggests a third discovery shelf is forming on Amazon, one that does…
Rakuten France Is Shutting Down
A mid-tier European marketplace is dying in public. The numbers behind the closure are the clearest evidence yet of the…
JD.com Opens Joybuy to European Sellers
China’s JD.com did something the other Chinese entrants into Europe did not do: it moved the warehouses first. Before it…
TikTok Shop Is Now Bigger Than Best Buy — And 82% of Its Sellers Are Losing Money
TikTok Shop reached $23.4 billion in US revenue in 2026. It now holds 74% of all US social commerce. It…
TikTok Shop Is Turning Commerce Into a Participation Economy
For most of retail history, commerce was a simple transaction. Brands sold. Consumers bought. The relationship was largely one-directional. TikTok…
Amazon’s Next Battle Isn’t Retail. It’s Groceries.
For years, Amazon focused on becoming the world’s dominant online retailer. It conquered: But one of the largest consumer spending…