E-Commerce
Meta drops Seller app for Facebook Marketplace
Facebook’s version of Craigslist, where 430 million items are listed each month, is finally building proper tools for online sellers.
Vidhi is a reporter for Retail Brew covering e-commerce and retail media. She was previously a senior reporter at Digiday's Modern Retail. Her work has also been published in TheStreet, Forbes, Nikkei Asia and TheCity. Vidhi has a master's degree in business and economics journalism from Columbia Journalism School.
E-Commerce
What does July look like for Amazon merchants without a Prime Day?
Some sellers said it was nice to have breathing room to focus on back-to-school and the rest of the year.
E-Commerce
Podean snaps up Social Commerce Club to focus on social shopping, TikTok Shop
TikTok Shop has a new flywheel, because it offers better fulfillment, more creators telling authentic stories, and a stronger product selection.
Marketing
Rethink Retail forms retail media club to survive the AI transition
Media in Retail (MiR) is a closed executive network for the leaders actually running retail media, commerce media, and measurement.
E-Commerce
Shopify merchants can now go live on DoorDash
DoorDash comes embedded within the Shopify ecosystem.
E-Commerce
How Catalog is helping retailers show up on ChatGPT
Catalog runs more than 50 LLM calls to clean up a brand’s product data to make it palatable for AI models.
E-Commerce
Here’s what Meta brought to Cannes Lions on the shopping front
Live shopping formats and virtual credit cards were among the top shopping updates.
Consumer Behavior & Trends
Shopify shoppers are ditching smartphones for landlines this summer
People also bought sleep aids, sleep sprays, and mouth tape.
E-Commerce
Amazon’s June Prime Day week turns into a hit for early summer shopping
This is the first time Amazon hosted a four-day event in the month of June.
E-Commerce
Walmart says Walmart+ fuel perks are driving more loyalty
For Walmart the membership program is part of frequency flywheel to build relationships.