Late last year they shuttered their d2c business. Similarly, Liquid Death no longer sells its canned water d2c, pointing customers to Amazon instead. It’s because after accounting for all costs, their margins were actually better in wholesale channels. ~ learn more
I haven’t encountered this first-hand yet. It seems like a pretty good idea, considering those are the items that drive a ton of excess cost and don’t please consumer. Why didn’t they do this sooner? ~ learn more
“[Luna] Yu, who founded Genecis at the age of 21, is the first woman CEO to receive investment support through the Female Founder Initiative. Genecis is also the fund’s first investment in a company directly addressing the use of fossil […]
This writer explored the incentives that drive this: “Some of the spatulas you encounter first will carry brand names you’ve heard of before, like KitchenAid or Rubbermaid, while others will have names like IOCBYHZ, BANKKY, or KLAQQED.” I learned that […]
Amazon researchers paired text with images as input to drive LLM ability ever higher. And they did it with a model that’s only 770 million params (vs the 175 Billion in GPT-3.5). “Our method achieves new state-of-the-art performance on the […]
They have these at my local Whole Foods and I’ve always been a bit turned off by them. But maybe that’s a knee-jerk reaction? “Holding my hand a few inches over an Amazon One scanner next to the cash register […]
Amazon places limits on how much inventory a 3rd party seller can store in its warehouses. Around holiday time, they tend to cut these limits, which creates a lot of extra stress (and stockouts) for those independent sellers. Why do […]
“There are 98 active Amazon aggregators. 58 aggregators have announced funding rounds, of which 33 raised at least $100 million.” It’s only a matter of time until someone aggregates the aggregators. | learn more
“Shopify has told merchants they’ll be in breach of its terms of service (ToS) if they use Amazon’s Buy with Prime feature.” | learn more
Packable, last year the #1 seller on Amazon Marketplace in the U.S., is liquidating. A year ago, they were planning a SPAC deal at a $1.5 billion valuation. I hope to someday read the inside story of how this business […]