📦 The Order : Weekly Roundup - UnBoxed Recap & OpenStore
Issue #185
Happy Sunday,
Here’s a quick roundup of last week’s news :
Chart of the Week:
In ‘Target and Shopify Teaming Up Didn’t Boost Marketplace’ Marketplace Pulse looks into Target’s third-party seller landscape:
Amazon Ads Deep Dive:
Amazon unBoxed meant prime time for new announcement for the ads industry. Here’s Amazon Ads evangelist Jeffrey Cohen’s rundown of this week’s announcements: Unboxed 2024 Keynote Product Announcements
Movers & Shakers 🙌
Aggregators looking to add SaaS revenues: OpenStore launches OpenDesk - “OpenStore evolution: After layoffs, Shopify aggregator OpenStore launches an AI customer service tool for brands” [Modern Retail]
Strategy ♟
Amazon Pitches Merchants on Artificial Intelligence for Ads [Bloomberg]
Amazon debuts new type of grocery store next to Whole Foods [The Information]
Amazon Air Cargo Launches, Taking Aim at FedEx and UPS in Airfreight [Supply Chain 24]
How Amazon and its sellers use artificial intelligence [Fox Business Video]
Amazon Is Helping Local Businesses Succeed by Empowering Them to Be a Force for Good [Tamron Hall Show]
Brands expect Amazon to be a more important holiday sales driver [Glossy]
TikTok wants to turn millions of Americans into paid shopping influencers [Rest of World]
Events 🎤
Amazon Innovate, Oct 29-30 in New York
Make this week count 🙌
Christian