📦 The Order : Weekly Roundup - Top eCom sites & Accelerate
Issue #180
Happy Sunday,
Here’s a quick roundup of last week’s news :
Chart of the Week
Marketplace Pulse this week featured an overview of top eCommerce websites in ‘Temu now ranks ‘Temu Now Ranks as World's No. 2 E-Commerce Site’
Movers & Shakers 🙌
Pacvue Appoints New Chief Executive Officer and Strengthens Board of Directors [Pacvue]
Strategy ♟
Amazon terminates certain 1P contracts in Q4 [Linkedin]
Amazon targets Aldi and Target with a new lineup of ‘no-frills’ groceries | CNN Business [CNN]
Amazon launches Export Central, allowing sellers to export to 39 countries in Europe with just three clicks [Amazon]
The White House says it will crack down on trade provision used by Shein & Temu [The Information]
The Mysterious, Meteoric Rise of Shein [The Atlantic]
Roblox, Shopify partner to sell physical products in the metaverse [Retail Dive]
Confessions of a founder closing her beauty brand: ‘DTC isn't working right now’ [Glossy]
TD launches e-commerce platform aimed to compete with Shopify [Globe & Mail]
One step forward:
And one step back: Oaktree issues mea culpa to Advent and Silver Lake for ‘serious error in judgment’ [Financial Times]
Latin America's e-commerce king says MercadoLibre has huge room for growth [Reuters]
Job Opportunity 👩🚀
Operations Specialist - Amazon Automation Control Center [with Autopilot]
Events 🎤
Join Autopilotbrand.com along with Finale Inventory, Jungle Scout, PickFu & Trellis on Tue, Sep 17 6.30pm after the first day of Accelerate. Apply for one of the spots today here with code: Amazon-Accelerate-HH
Also if you are going to Accelerate, check out Jeffrey Cohen’s ‘Know before you go’ guide:
Amazon Accelerate, Sep 17-19 in Seattle
Amazon unBoxed, Oct 14-16 in Austin
Amazon Innovate, Oct 29-30 in New York
Make this week count 🙌
Christian