📦 The Order : Weekly Roundup - Automated profit lift, Razor Group & Cart.com
Issue #157
Happy Sunday,
Here’s a quick roundup of last week’s news :
Chart of the Week
Marketplace Pulse dives into the Buy with Prime flywheel in “Buy With Prime Is Not Ubiquitous but Growing”
Organic Profit Boost: Automated Listing Optimization
Ongoing listing optimization holds largely unexplored opportunities for merchants: A brand with TTM sales of $12M generates $600k+ in net profits — this is after the cost of running the optimization.
By paying for the automation with a credit card with 45-60 day payment terms, this yields immediate payback and straight profit lift from there. The direct net profit cash flow effect looks as follows (and includes the investment into the solution):
Ready to explore this for your ASINs? 👉 Let the Autopilot team walk you through the effect for your brand.
Movers & Shakers 🙌
Podcast Deep Dive: Consolidation as Strategy: Razor Group's Path to Market Leadership - Razor Group Founder Tushar Ahluwalia [StartBase]
Cincinnati venture-backed Amazon partner Amify acquired by Houston-based Cart.com [Biz Journals]
Bulgarian E-commerce Startup Rush Acquired by Shop Circle for Strategic Integration [The Recursive]
Strategy 🦈
Amazon hits pause on controversial seller fee rollout that had caused a revolt [Fortune]
Amazon Sellers Plagued by Surge in Scam Returns [Wall Street Journal]
Amazon quietly launches Bazaar to sell fast-fashion and lifestyle products in India [TechCrunch]
Amazon needs to comply with EU ad database [eCommerce News]
Amazon's 'Just Walk Out' pullback shows AI has a long way to go [Business Insider]
Shopify has poached at least two dozen employees from Salesforce as it pushes into enterprise e-commerce [Business Insider]
DTC Briefing: Why some marketers worry that Meta is 'broken' [Modern Retail]
Hoping to stall a ban, TikTok says it generated $14.7B for US small businesses last year [TechCrunch]
Events 🎤
Pattern Accelerate, May 9-10 in Salt Lake City
Shoptalk Europe, Jun 3-5 in Barcelona
Amazon Accelerate, Sep 17-19 in Seattle
Make this week count 🙌
Christian