Category: E-commerce

August 6, 2020

Every unit item sold through the site has a $5 consumer donation attached to it, with all of the proceeds donated directly to Baby2Baby and Know Your Rights Camp. The BestKeptSecret team and its sponsors will match all donations, per […]

August 4, 2020

Google Cloud is preparing for “peak on top of peak” sales from US retailers as the industry prepares for huge spikes in online traffic this Black Friday season. Google Cloud’s head of retail and consumer Carrie Tharp said that retailers’ […]

August 4, 2020

The North Face, Puma and Pernod Ricard are returning to Facebook as the #StopHateForProfit boycott loses steam and fails to make a dent in revenues. The North Face, which was one of the first big name retailers to pull its […]

July 31, 2020

Amazon enjoyed its best ever quarter during lockdown, seeing its profits double and hit their highest level on record. Amazon’s sales jumped 40 per cent to $88.9 billion during its second quarter helping it achieve a net income of $5.2 […]

July 30, 2020

Amazon’s chief executive Jeff Bezos botched his defense of his company at yesterday’s House Judiciary Committee antitrust hearing, failing to guarantee it has not taken ideas from its competitors. During the landmark hearing the chief executives from the US’ largest […]

July 29, 2020

Coronavirus has spelled the bankruptcies and even the end for many struggling companies, but it’s given a new window of opportunity for eBay in its continued fight against larger rival Amazon. Second-quarter gross merchandise value, or GMV, sold on eBay […]

July 28, 2020

Walmart has seen the number of new sellers signing up to its marketplace more than triple thanks to its partnership with Shopify. Walmart Marketplace, its platform designed to rival Amazon which allows third-party sellers to set up online stores, has […]

July 27, 2020

Amazon is set to post profits during its second quarter despite warning investors in April that $4 billion in earnings would be wiped out by the pandemic. Ahead of the release of its quarterly figures on Thursday, analysts have predicted […]

July 27, 2020

Alibaba’s founder Jack Ma has been summoned to a court in India amid allegations the retailer censored content seen as unfavourable to China. China’s richest man has been thrown into the increasingly hostile spat between India and China which saw […]

July 21, 2020

E-commerce stocks have roared higher off the March lows. Wayfair, Stitch Fix, Etsy and Chewy have rallied triple digits since the market trough four months ago. Overstock, the biggest mover, has skyrocketed 2,058% since its own bottom. These stocks have […]