third party sellers

Amazon Allegedly Poached Info From Sellers To Launch Competing Products
Amazon Allegedly Poached Info From Sellers To Launch Competing Products
April 23, 2020  |  eCommerce

Amazon is facing charges that it violated its own policies when employees took data from its independent sellers to launch competing products, The Wall Street...

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Nike To Pull Product Listings From Amazon
Nike To Pull Product Listings From Amazon
November 13, 2019  |  Amazon

Nike announced that it is parting ways with Amazon and will no longer sell its products on the eCommerce marketplace, ending a pilot program that...

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Walmart Subsidizes Vendor Price Cuts To Gain Edge Over Amazon
Walmart Subsidizes Vendor Price Cuts To Gain Edge Over Amazon
October 14, 2019  |  eCommerce

Price wars usually only have one winner: Consumers. Price wars tend to be decent short term strategies to lock in customers.  But then, what happens...

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Amazon Tweaks Search Algorithm To Elevate Its Own Products
Amazon Tweaks Search Algorithm To Elevate Its Own Products
September 16, 2019  |  eCommerce

Amazon has changed its algorithm to benefit its profitability, pushing its own products higher in search, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday (Sept. 16)....

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WSJ Investigation Finds Thousands Of Unsafe Products On Amazon
WSJ Investigation Finds Thousands Of Unsafe Products On Amazon
August 23, 2019  |  Retail

The Wall Street Journal did an investigation of thousands of Amazon’s third-party items and found a large amount were unsafe, mislabeled or banned in the...

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EU To Examine Amazon’s Use Of Third-Party Merchant Data
EU To Examine Amazon’s Use Of Third-Party Merchant Data
July 17, 2019  |  Retail

As scrutiny of tech firms grows on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, Amazon will reportedly face a formal antitrust investigation from the European Union...

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Amazon’s Share Of Total eComm Sales: Now 37 Percent?
Amazon’s Share Of Total eComm Sales: Now 37 Percent?
June 14, 2019  |  Amazon

New estimates from eMarketer say that Amazon’s share of the U.S. eCommerce market is far below previous projections. According to reports in The Information, eMarketer has lowered its 2019 estimate...

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Italy Antitrust Authority Investigating Five Amazon Companies
Italy Antitrust Authority Investigating Five Amazon Companies
April 16, 2019  |  ANTITRUST

The Italian Competition Authority (ICA) has launched an investigation into five separate Amazon outfits to determine whether the company is taking advantage of its position...

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Italy Competition Authority Launches Amazon Inquiry
Italy Competition Authority Launches Amazon Inquiry
April 16, 2019  |  eCommerce

Amazon is facing an inquiry by the Italian Competition Authority (ICA) over allegations that the company abused its position in the country’s eCommerce and logistic...

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