Happy Sunday,
Here’s a quick roundup of last week’s news:
Chart of the Week :
CommerceIQ’s Guru Hariharan posted about Prime Big Deal Days this week, highlighting in the post show below how order volume, and prices, evolved by category.
AI News of the Week ♟
A targeting breakthrough: A new paper shows 90% accuracy to simulate purchase intent.
Ethan Mollick posted about the paper this week: “This paper shows that you can predict actual purchase intent (90% accuracy) by asking an off-the-shelf LLM to impersonate a customer with a demographic profile, giving it a product image & having the AI give its impressions, which are then compared to reference statements by similarity.'“
Strategy ♟
Amazon launches Account Health - Seller Challenge [Seller Central]
Amazon’s latest actions against fake review brokers: Amazon and BBB join forces again to combat fake reviews [Amazon]
I tracked Amazon’s Prime Day prices. We’ve been played. [Washington Post]
Death by Valuation: The Amazon Aggregator Autopsy [Marketplace Pulse]
Inside Anker: Failures, Fixes, and “Shallow Waters” Strategy [China Sellers Substack]
German cartel office investigating Temu over merchant price influencing [Reuters]
ChatGPT Chases Retail Revenue with One-Stop Shopping [The Daily Upside]
‘It’s like Google all over again’: What OpenAI’s Instant Checkout signals about conversational commerce [Digiday]
Agentic Commerce Is (Still) a Collective Hallucination [Marketecture]
Events 🎤
Amz Innovate, New York Oct 10-12
Amazon UnBoxed, Nashville Nov 10-12
Make this week count 🙌
Christian