Coverage of global e-commerce marketplaces, online shopping platforms, and cross-border selling.
Amazon has raised its minimum starting wage for full-time US operations employees to $20 an hour and paired the $1.5 billion raise with a 10-20% grocery discount from October 1 and a lifetime credit union membership. The move matches Costco and lands three weeks before Prime Big Deal Days.
Amazon has confirmed Prime Big Deal Days for October 6–7, 2026, a 48-hour Prime-only sale across 22 countries with deal drops three times a day. The date sets the first hard deadline of the holiday quarter for sellers and fixes the week Walmart, Target and Best Buy will have to answer.
Amazon is likely to name Sweden, Poland or Ireland as a required Pan-EU FBA listing store by 30 September 2027, with Poland the most probable first pick. The Dutch mandate, Kaufland’s Dutch launch and a widening Bol lead point the same way.
TikTok Shop’s reported plan to open Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Australia in Q1 2027 is unlikely to land as three simultaneous launches. Three signals from August 2026 point to at most two shipping local storefronts by March 31, 2027, with Australia the most likely to slip.
Sending free product to creators is cheap to start and easy to waste. The difference is entirely in selection and follow-up.
A viral video is a fulfillment problem before it is a marketing win. The model you picked decides how that night goes.
A TikTok Shop account rarely dies in one blow. It dies through violation points nobody was watching.
Checkout is where accessibility failures turn directly into lost revenue, and mobile is where the failures concentrate.
MercadoLibre’s Mexico GMV grew 26% FX-neutral in the second quarter against Brazil’s 39%, a 13 point gap inside the same company and the same quarter. Signals point to a Mexico-specific defensive move, on membership, shipping thresholds or local capacity, disclosed by the Q4 2026 results in late February 2027.
Cheap resold barcodes look like a saving until a listing gets blocked. Identifiers are the cheapest part of a catalog to get right.