by John Rossman | Apr 16, 2014 | Blog
The WSJ is reporting that the Germany Cartel office will not be pursuing proceeding against Amazon after Amazon adjusted it’s third-party selling “pricing parity” requirements. (read the WSJ story here ) Pricing and availability parity has been an important...
by John Rossman | Apr 29, 2014 | Blog
Amazon’s cloud computing business AWS announced the release of high-performance SQL-like open source query tool Impala running on AWS. Combine Impala with Amazon’s Kinesis product which enables real time collection and distribution of streaming data and...
by John Rossman | Apr 16, 2014 | Blog
US Retail E-commerce is forecasted to have a 12% to 15% YOY increase as percent of total retail sales in this holiday season, as forecasted by Comscore, and accounted for 5.9% of all retail sales in Q3. Amazon is expected to outpace competition due to Prime shipping,...
by John Rossman | Apr 29, 2014 | Blog
With estimates that over 1/3 of all online orders get returned, and trends showing that this is increasing with a generation of shoppers growing up with an “all you can eat” returns expectation offered by companies like Zappos, retailers are using a...
by John Rossman | Apr 29, 2014 | Blog
Bloomberg reports that with a test basket of 100 toys, Amazon had 95% in stock, Walmart 55%, Kmart 61%, Toys “R” Us 63%, and Target lagging at 40%. The article noted that Amazon’s third party selling marketplace helps it both selection and availability. A dynamic...
