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Welcome to Ecommerce Weekly, SellerExpress' review of the top ecommerce, Amazon and eBay news from around the Web this week. Amazon just launched a cashier-free convenience store: Natt Garun at The Verge reports that Amazon has opened its first grocery store without lines or checkout counters in Seattle. Amazon Go, lets shoppers grab the items they want and leave. Amazon Go works by using computer vision and sensors to detect what items you’re taking out of the store and charging them to your Amazon account. Continue reading... Amazon's Music Unlimited family plan comes to the UK: Matt Brian at Engadget reports that Amazon's Music Unlimited has extended its subscription to include a Family option which costs £15 a month or £149 for a full year and allows up to six people to stream to their heart's content. Amazon customers now have four plans to choose from. Continue reading... Amazon's Snowmobile will let you upload stuff by the truckload – literally: Alex Hearn at The Guardian reports on the AWS Snowmobile, a large truck carrying a shipping container which holds a mobile data centre that can [...]

Welcome to Ecommerce Weekly, SellerExpress' review of the top ecommerce, Amazon and eBay news from around the Web this week. Amazon places cap on non-Amazon verified purchase reviews: Chris Dunne at FeedbackExpress reports Amazon is continuing its efforts to stop false feedback by announcing that buyers will only to be able to leave five reviews a week for items not bought via the online store. Amazon has said, "You can submit a maximum of five non-Amazon Verified Purchase reviews each week, starting on (a) Sunday. If we find unusually high numbers of reviews for a product posted in a short period of time, we may restrict these products to Amazon Verified Purchase reviews." Continue reading... 7 ecommerce trends that worked in 2016: Jason Ford at The Drum reports on ecommerce trends that failed and those that worked including responsive design and mobile commerce, website speed and performance as well as usability testing and customer experience. Continue reading... UK Amazon marketplace sellers to reach £1.8 billion in exports sales: Ben Stevens at Retail Gazette reports that Amazon has announced that third-party sellers on Amazon UK are [...]

Welcome to Ecommerce Weekly, SellerExpress' review of the top ecommerce, Amazon and eBay news from around the Web this week. Meet Brand Central, Amazon's secret, new plan to squash counterfeits: Ben Fox Rubin at CNET reports that Amazon is going on the offensive against counterfeits with Brand Central, a suite of digital tools under development to help sellers protect their brands from fakes and knockoffs. The effort comes as Amazon filed its first-ever lawsuits against alleged counterfeit sellers with more suits expected. Details about Brand Central remain vague at this stage. Continue reading... The Grand Tour breaks Amazon Prime video audience record: BBC Newsbeat reports that according to Amazon, the first episode of The Grand Tour has become the biggest premiere on Amazon Prime, overtaking The Man in The High Castle. Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos said, "The guys are back, doing what they do best." As well as bringing record audiences, on the day The Grand Tour was released, new Prime membership sign-ups exceeded all previous days, with the exception of their Amazon Prime Day. Continue reading... Amazon UK/EU Long Term Storage Fees: Chris Dawson [...]

Welcome to Ecommerce Weekly, SellerExpress' review of the top ecommerce, Amazon and eBay news from around the Web this week. Alibaba smashes all Singles Day sales records: Chris Dawson at Tamebay reports that Alibaba smashed all sales record on their annual 11/11 Singles Day, with sales of RMB 120.7 billion ($17.79 billion) in gross merchandise volume in just 24 hours. Thats up around a third on last year’s Singles Day and across 235 countries and regions. Other records smashed were RMB 98.97 billion ($14.6 billion) in GMV generated on mobile devices and 657 million delivery orders. Continue reading... Amazon takes counterfeit sellers to court for first time: Ari Levy at CNBC reports Amazon has filed lawsuits against counterfeit sellers, after a number of sellers complained that knockoffs were killing their sales and endangering consumers. On Monday, Amazon filed suit against a group of sellers for infringing on athletic training equipment developed by TRX. In a second case, Amazon sued sellers who are offering fake versions of a patented moving product called Forearm Forklift. Continue reading... eBay hikes seller fees for Half.com up by 200%: Ina [...]

Welcome to Ecommerce Weekly, SellerExpress' review of the top ecommerce, Amazon and eBay news from around the Web this week. [Infographic] Alibaba Singles’ Day 2016: Chris Dunne at FeedbackExpress reports that Alibaba chalked up a record $17.79 billion (120.7 billion yuan) in gross merchandise volume (GMV) on Singles Day', an increase of 32% year-on-year. Growth rate was lower than the 60% experienced in 2015. In the first five minutes, the Chinese ecommerce giant processed $1 billion on its mobile payment platform, Alipay. Across Alibaba's ecommerce platforms, mainly Tmall.com and Taobao Marketplace, some 1.04 billion payment transactions were processed, compared to last year's 710 million. Continue reading... Amazon Global Store launches for cross border tax paid shopping: Chris Dawson at Tamebay reports that Amazon have launched Amazon Global Store to enable sales to consumers from Amazon sites around the world. In a similar manner to eBay’s Global Shipping Program, consumers can find and buy products from Amazon in the US on Amazon UK. Delivery takes place in as little as two days with goods customs cleared on your behalf, easy returns and UK customer service. Continue [...]

Welcome to Ecommerce Weekly, SellerExpress' review of the top ecommerce, Amazon and eBay news from around the Web this week. New Amazon ‘Simplify Global Selling’ pilot to remove VAT obstacles: Chris Dawson at Tamebay reports that Amazon are piloting a new Simplify Global Selling programme in an attempt to make it as easy to sell to overseas customers, as it is to those in the UK. Amazon know that global selling can be complex for sellers and offer to translate listings and through Fulfilment by Amazon. Continue reading... One of Amazon's earliest investors just made a $30 million bet on Hollar, the online dollar store: Biz Carson at Business Insider UK reports on David Yeom, who made a big bet that the dollar store experience that he loved could work online too. It sounded like a bad business idea at the time but Yeom has proved the doubters wrong so far. Hollar's growth over the past year has attracted the eye of one of Amazon's earliest investors, Kleiner Perkins. Continue reading... Black Friday 2016: Amazon's Deals Store puts Kindle Voyage, Roku streaming stick and more [...]