retail therapy
Don’t you push that button!
“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
Tag: amazon
retail therapy
Retail can be a very hard business.
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 […]
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How will Amazon approach U.S. primary care?
Musings by two MBA professors who specialize in the healthcare industry: Robert S. Huckman and Bradley Staats. “Amazon has a playbook for reinventing businesses that it enters. It includes simplifying processes, experimenting to determine which new approaches work best, and […]
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Amazon and One Medical.
A deep dive into the recently announced acquisition of “the O.G. tech enabled primary care platform.” One tidbit I was missing is that half of One Medical’s revenue in Q1 2022 came from Medicare. | learn more
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The problem with Amazon sellers like MOFFBUZW.
“Black-hat international sellers … hide behind shell businesses and fake names. if they get popped for writing fake reviews or selling a product that kills someone, they just show up next week under a new account.” | learn more
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Could Amazon run out of people to hire?
“Amazon is facing a looming crisis: It could run out of people to hire in its US warehouses by 2024, according to leaked Amazon internal research from mid-2021 that Recode reviewed.” | learn more
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Five myths about retail media networks (RMNs).
This is a McKinsey post about the advertising businesses built on top of major retailers. Considering Amazon’s ad side hustle is a $30B+ business already, I’m surprised I hadn’t heard the term RMN before. | learn more
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Look back on 10 years of Amazon robots.
This is from Amazon’s PR team so they didn’t miss an opportunity to state that over the past 10 years they’ve added almost twice as many human workers as robotic ones. Check it out if you’re curious to see their […]
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What’s going on in the Amazon third-party seller ecosystem?
A post co-authored by Ali Hamed and Meghan Hillery highlights the dynamics at play in the world of marketplace sellers, especially among the aggregators who have attracted so much capital over the past couple years. “The TL;DR: 2022 will be […]
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Retail success depends on warehouses.
So, Amazon’s launched a new $1 billion fund to invest in warehouse tech. “The Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund will focus on new technologies that will “increase delivery speed and further improve the experience” of warehouse and logistics employees, Alex Ceballos […]