The Shelf Space Weekly #20: Amazon Is Taking Back First-Party Share — And That Should Get Your Attention
For years, the direction seemed obvious. Amazon was steadily stepping back from first-party retail, letting third-party sellers take over more.
For years, the direction seemed obvious. Amazon was steadily stepping back from first-party retail, letting third-party sellers take over more.
A small minority of sellers now drive roughly half of all third-party gross merchandise volume on Amazon. That statistic sounds.
Global e-commerce has crossed an important milestone. Online retail now represents roughly ten trillion dollars in annual sales worldwide. It’s.
When news surfaced that ChatGPT would take a roughly 4% fee on transactions, the reaction online followed a familiar pattern..
For more than a decade, Amazon’s growth story was told through a single lens: how many new sellers joined the.
For two decades, e-commerce competition has revolved around traffic acquisition. Brands fought for clicks. Platforms fought for attention. Advertising budgets.
For years, Amazon’s ecosystem has thrived on a paradox. The company built the world’s most sophisticated third-party marketplace, yet allowed.
Amazon’s marketplace has always been defined by scale. But what’s changing now isn’t the size of its catalog — it’s.
Thrasio’s collapse didn’t kill the aggregator idea—it exposed the illusion that cheap capital could replace disciplined execution. The model was.
Amazon just crossed a symbolic but telling threshold: Chinese sellers now make up more than half of all third-party sellers.
