📦 The Order : Weekly Roundup - $1M Livestream & Tesco

Issue #167

Happy Sunday,

Here’s a quick roundup of last week’s news :

Insight of the Week

Marketplace Pulse covered TikTok’s groundbreaking live streaming event: TikTok's First $1 Million Shopping Livestream.

Movers & Shakers 🙌

• The Unybrands & Kushner deal: Jared Kushner's post-White House deal-making included badly timed bet on Amazon aggregator [CNBC]

• Tesco opening a marketplace: ‘Tesco toppling Amazon’s reign isn’t completely bonkers’ [The Grocer]

Strategy 🦈

• Layoffs, abusive calls, and AI fears: Inside the front lines of Amazon’s ‘customer obsession’ promise [Fortune]

• Brands are seeing better margins in wholesale than DTC [Glossy]

• Walmart, Amazon want to buy more goods from Vietnam [VnExpress International]

• Walmart Files Show Wrong Prices Charged at 1,600 Stores for Days [Bloomberg]

• Starbucks Studios to Offer Content Outside the Coffee Cup [Inc]

• Alibaba’s New E-Commerce Strategy Faces Tough Competition [Wall Street Journal]

• Shein tries to suppress chair’s claim that fashion retailer is ‘American’ [Financial Times]

• Temu Lures More Repeat Customers than EBay, Pressures Amazon [Bloomberg]

• Flipkart's path to profitability will decide IPO timing, says Walmart CFO [Economic Times]

• AI Is Re-Shaping E-Commerce. Here’s How To Use It To Free Your Time And Focus On Growth [Forbes]

Job Opportunity 👩‍🚀

• Operations Specialist - Amazon Automation Control Center ]with Autopilot]

Events 🎤

• Amazon Seller Partner Dev Summit, Jun 28-29 in Seattle

• Amazon Accelerate, Sep 17-19 in Seattle

Make this week count 🙌

Christian