eCommerce Today — August 9, 2017: Top things you should know about
Aug 9, 2017 · 2 min read

Top eCommerce things you should know today — August 9, 2017.
- CMO Today: Netflix Acquires Millarworld; CBS Embraces Digital; FX Launches Ad-Free Upgrade [WSJ]
- When a Scented Candle Just Won’t Do. [NY Times]
- Chart: Where Amazon’s US fulfillment centers are located. Amazon has dramatically increased its fulfillment network in recent years, with 140 fulfillment centers now open in the U.S. alone. Here’s a map of where these centers are located. [Digital Commerce 360, Internet Retailer]
- A redesigned packaging website features virtual negotiating on price. Freund Container & Supply also adds customized labels and customer account functions to its revamped e-commerce site. [Digital Commerce 360, B2B eCommerce World]
- How Two Brothers Turned Seven Lines of Code Into a $9.2 Billion Startup. Now, Stripe’s Patrick and John Collison are teaming with Amazon to grab even more control over the global flow of commerce. [Bloomberg]
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- Is your eCommerce business ready for the Holidays 2017? Here’s the playbook! [Sabir Semerkant, Medium]
- How L’Occitane Used Shopify Plus to Launch a Facebook Sales Channel in Just 42 Days. With just a few weeks until Mother’s Day 2017, L’Occitane was determined to experiment in a way many 40-year-old brands don’t. The company wanted to offer a Mother’s Day gift collection exclusively on Facebook and allow customers to check out right inside the social media platform’s application. [Shopify Plus Blog]
- Beat the earnings yet close the stores — 100 stores closing by Macy’s [Sabir Semerkant, Medium]
- 25 books everyone should read in 2017 — Part 1 [Sabir Semerkant, Medium]
- 10 Transcendental Meditations on YouTube [Sabir Semerkant, Medium]
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About the Author
Sabir Semerkant is a data-obsessed, Transformative and entrepreneurial Senior Marketing Executive in E-commerce and Digital Marketing offers progressive global experience at growth oriented companies in the consumer goods and e-commerce sector. He is currently the SVP of eCommerce at VaynerMedia working alongside Gary Vaynerchuk and team. He can be found via LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram. His articles are posted on Medium.
