📦 The Order : Weekly Roundup - Prime Day Highlights & Post Prime Day Hack + Thrasio, Spreetail & Cart.com
Issue #172
Happy Sunday,
Here’s a quick roundup of last week’s news :
Post-Prime Day Hack:
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Prime Day Highlights:
Amazon’s strongest Prime Day to date delivered.
Key highlights
US Prime Day sales reached $14.2 billion (+11.0% YoY) in 2024 [Adobe]
Thereof $7 billion spending through mobile devices (+18.6% percent YoY) [Adobe]
49.2% of the Prime Day event purchases were made through smartphones.
Independent sellers sold more than 200 million items during Prime Day [Amazon]
A great roundup by Numerator:
Movers & Shakers 🙌
Thrasio: Moiz Ali joins the board [X]
Spreetail: Joshua Ketter promoted to Global CEO [PR Newswire]
Cart.com: $105 Million Secured in Debt Refinancing from BlackRock [Cart.com]
Strategy 🦈
Amazon announces billions of euros in European investments and the creation of thousands of new jobs [Amazon]
Amazon’s Blueprint For Frictionless Shopping Is The Future Of Retail [Forbes]
Day 1 Prime Day Lowlight: Amazon Advertising Portal Crashes, Disrupting Key Prime Day Sale [Bloomberg]
Amazon Sold a Used Diaper. It Tanked a Mom-and-Pop Business [Bloomberg]
Amazon's Unhelpful AI Shopping Assistant [Marketplace Pulse]
Dharmesh Mehta on Fox: Everyone wants to find great deals and we focus on that [Fox Business]
US retail sales report showcases consumer, economic resilience [Reuters]
Luxury brands become landlords to take control in coveted retail destinations [Modern Retail]
TikTok e-commerce grows fourfold in ASEAN, narrows gap with Shopee [Nikkei]
Flipkart’s desperation for profits is squeezing top fashion brands [The Ken]
Job Opportunity 👩🚀
Operations Specialist - Amazon Automation Control Center ]with Autopilot]
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Make this week count 🙌
Christian