Amazon
An extremely high-street and fast-fashion focused one, at that.
Marketplaces
- Zalando wants to double its gross market value by 2020 — it’s now £4.4bn. They are spreading to Ireland and the Czech Republic this summer.
You play checkers, couldn’t beat me playin’ chess
Since the last email, Tesco direct folded. This puts not just close to 500 people’s job at risk, but numerous sellers will need to find a new way to make up for the loss of income.
ChannelAdvisor’s Catalyst EU happened last week! If you missed David Spritz’s keynote, here is the TameBay writeup. Amazon accounts for 4.2% of UK retail. Around 51% of millenials don’t care about brands and that’s why Amazon’s ~ 80 private labels are making a killing…
- Facebook Messenger is becoming more marketplace-y. Instagram has just added in-app payments feature. Both mean that Facebook is more serious about making money as a marketplace than ever before.
You probably know the deets: Prime membership will go $99 -> $110, 3P unit mix up to 52%, global sellers represent 25% of that. Amazon loves third party sellers — the revenue from 3p seller services accounted for 18% of total sales…
Trump is continuing his war on Amazon by ordering a financial review of Postal Service in the US. Amazon so far looks less than upset.
