Amazon pushes shoppers to its own brand before clicking ‘buy’Amazon has introduced a new feature that markets its private-label brands right before consumers add rival products to their shopping carts.The Washington Post conducted dozens of product searches and saw...
Dangerous products for sale on AmazonThe platform was found to have 4,152 items that were deemed unsafe by federal agencies, labeled misleadingly, or banned by federal regulators by a report from The Wall Street Journal.These listings, many of which were changed or...
Amazon expands to the fast-growing Middle East marketAmazon announced the start of operations in Israel and launched a website encouraging sellers to start deliveries to Israeli customers.Amazon Services website in both Hebrew and English offers local and foreign...
Amazon invests in new tools to help sellers grow their businessThis year Amazon is going to invest $15 billion in new tools, services and programs designed to assist its third-party sellers.Since the start of 2019, Amazon has launched 150 tools and services to help...
What does Amazon’s “Top Brand” badge actually mean? Amazon is testing a new signifier, called “Top Brand”. But no one seems to know what, exactly, a “Top Brand” is, and Amazon won’t say. According to Business Insider, companies do not pay to receive the label, which...
Amazon ‘ambassadors’ defend working conditions at warehouses A group of Amazon employees known as “FC ambassadors” began tweeting again about how great it is to work at Amazon. When the ambassadors see others on social media discussing the brutal working...
