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Q4 Amazon Fees: Who Carries Your Inventory Risk?
Prime Big Deal Days is over, and brands are carrying the remainder into the most expensive ninety days of the marketplace calendar. Peak storage, peak fulfillment, the 181-day aged-inventory surcharge...
Q4 Amazon Fees: Who Carries Your Inventory Risk?
Prime Big Deal Days is over, and brands are carrying the remainder into the most expensive ninety days of the marketplace calendar. Peak storage, peak fulfillment, the 181-day aged-inventory surcharge...
Your Next Customer Won't Read Your Listing
Amazon's Rufus can now auto-buy for shoppers. Here are 5 shifts brand owners need to make so AI shopping agents choose their products.
Your Next Customer Won't Read Your Listing
Amazon's Rufus can now auto-buy for shoppers. Here are 5 shifts brand owners need to make so AI shopping agents choose their products.
The Lowest Price Anywhere Is Your Price Everywhere
A liquidation lot on a discount site can switch off your Amazon Buy Box, and your advertising with it. Amazon and Walmart now benchmark every offer against the lowest price...
The Lowest Price Anywhere Is Your Price Everywhere
A liquidation lot on a discount site can switch off your Amazon Buy Box, and your advertising with it. Amazon and Walmart now benchmark every offer against the lowest price...
$2.2 Billion Went Through Amazon. None of It Wa...
Local governments spent roughly $2.2 billion through Amazon in 2023 — nearly four times their 2016 spend. Institutional demand is already crossing listings built for consumers, and losing at checkout...
$2.2 Billion Went Through Amazon. None of It Wa...
Local governments spent roughly $2.2 billion through Amazon in 2023 — nearly four times their 2016 spend. Institutional demand is already crossing listings built for consumers, and losing at checkout...
Walmart Shelf Audition: The shelf is downstream...
A Walmart buyer told one of our brand partners to get listed on Walmart.com, build some history, and come back. The brand read it as a rejection. It was the...
Walmart Shelf Audition: The shelf is downstream...
A Walmart buyer told one of our brand partners to get listed on Walmart.com, build some history, and come back. The brand read it as a rejection. It was the...
The Recommendation Gap: Amazon's AI Selects Pro...
On 13 May 2026, Amazon moved its AI assistant into the main search bar and quietly severed the link between where a product ranks and whether a...
The Recommendation Gap: Amazon's AI Selects Pro...
On 13 May 2026, Amazon moved its AI assistant into the main search bar and quietly severed the link between where a product ranks and whether a...