📦 The Order : Weekly Roundup - Amazon's Q2

Issue #122

Happy Sunday,

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

Chart of the week 📈

Amazon’s third party seller services and ads had a massive Q2 signaling a strong overall development for eCommerce. And Prime Day isn’t even part of this yet. More details via Amazon Investor Relations.

Automation Use Case Deep Dive

As we are passionate about automation for sellers we’ll start featuring use cases and solutions for Amazon sellers. To start we are looking at the impact of automation on the long tail of listings. Listing quality is often poor for a large number of ASINs. You can explore - and now easily test - how automation helps lift the long tail.

Strategy 📈

• Amazon Surges After Jassy Spurs Sales Growth, Reins in Costs [Bloomberg]

• Amazon Says Regionalization of Fulfillment Centers Is Working [eCommerce Bytes]

• Pinterest touts Amazon partnership progress, AI in Q2 earnings beat [TechCrunch]

• China's cutthroat e-commerce tactic goes global as Shein-Temu war escalates [TechCrunch]

• Walmart pays $1.4 billion to buy Tiger Global's remaining Flipkart stake [TechCrunch]

• Etsy accused of 'destroying' sellers by withholding money [BBC]

• Gen Z Underwear Startup Nears Sale, Highlighting New Phase of Retail M&A [The Information]

• Zalando: more profit, but lower trading volume [eCommerce News]

Events 🎤

• Amazon Accelerate, Sep 12-14, Seattle, US

• eClimb Summit, Sep 21, London, UK

• Seller Velocity Conference, Oct 11-12, New York, US

• Amazon Ads unBoxed, Oct 24-26, New York City, US

Make this week count 🙌

Christian