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Americas

Amazon

AI & Agentic Commerce

News

Amazon’s Book Scanner Has a Supply Chain

A tracked shipment reveals how physical books become private AI training data at industrial scale.

Synchrony Wants Store Cards Inside ChatGPT Shopping

Americas

OpenAI

News

Payments & Checkout

Other Companies

Synchrony Wants Store Cards Inside ChatGPT Shopping

Retail rewards and financing are moving into the AI interface, but checkout control still needs a deal

eBay

Europe

Logistics & Fulfillment

News

eBay Turns Delivery Into A Tollbooth

New value-based Simple Delivery bands give eBay another pricing lever while free Click & Collect defends lower-priced fashion transactions

Americas

Amazon

Retail Media & Advertising

Insights

Amazon Ads Are Moving Up-Funnel

Video and brand formats gain budget as retail media stretches beyond product conversion.

Americas

AI & Agentic Commerce

Insights

Latin America's AI Trust Advantage

Mexico, Brazil and Argentina enter AI discovery with the trust Western markets still lack

Amazon

Europe

Logistics & Fulfillment

News

Amazon Moves Seller Inventory Upstream in Europe

Bulk storage and automated FBA replenishment simplify peak planning while deepening logistics dependence

Americas

Insights

Commerce Economics & Market Structure

Mexico Leads Latin America's Digital Economy

Smaller economic scale can beat GDP when commerce, media, and payments digitize faster

Americas

Marketplaces & Platform Power

Amazon

News

Amazon Put a Gate on Product Reviews

Anti-scraping controls can protect review data while weakening trust at the point of purchase

Delivery Consolidation Has Three Operating Models

DoorDash

Insights

Commerce Economics & Market Structure

Global

Other Companies

Delivery Consolidation Has Three Operating Models

DoorDash, Uber and Prosus scale global delivery through three very different operating machines

Google

AI & Agentic Commerce

Insights

OpenAI

Global

Product Pages Fail the AI Filter

Retailers wrote for humans while shopping agents need structured product attributes to decide

Nvidia Wants Equity In AI's Infrastructure Layer

Americas

AI & Agentic Commerce

OpenAI

News

Other Companies

Nvidia Wants Equity In AI's Infrastructure Layer

A proposed $3 billion SB Energy investment would move the chip supplier from vendor and guarantor toward ownership of the developer beneath OpenAI's Ohio campus

Americas

Amazon

Walmart

Insights

Commerce Economics & Market Structure

Amazon Takes Half the Retail Growth

By 2030, Amazon supplies half the top five retailers' combined U.S. sales expansion

Archive

Amazon’s Book Scanner Has a Supply Chain

Synchrony Wants Store Cards Inside ChatGPT Shopping

eBay Turns Delivery Into A Tollbooth

Amazon Ads Are Moving Up-Funnel

Latin America's AI Trust Advantage

Amazon Moves Seller Inventory Upstream in Europe

Mexico Leads Latin America's Digital Economy

Amazon Put a Gate on Product Reviews

Delivery Consolidation Has Three Operating Models

Product Pages Fail the AI Filter

Nvidia Wants Equity In AI's Infrastructure Layer

Amazon Takes Half the Retail Growth

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Archive

Amazon’s Book Scanner Has a Supply Chain

Synchrony Wants Store Cards Inside ChatGPT Shopping

eBay Turns Delivery Into A Tollbooth

Amazon Ads Are Moving Up-Funnel

Latin America's AI Trust Advantage

Amazon Moves Seller Inventory Upstream in Europe

Mexico Leads Latin America's Digital Economy

Amazon Put a Gate on Product Reviews

Delivery Consolidation Has Three Operating Models

Product Pages Fail the AI Filter

Nvidia Wants Equity In AI's Infrastructure Layer

Amazon Takes Half the Retail Growth

Your smart, no-nonsense guide to the maze of e-commerce

Join 1,000+ other readers and get the week’s best ecommerce & marketplace insights.Always data-driven, always stunning in under five minutes.

MarketMaze

Join 1,000+ other readers and get the week’s best ecommerce & marketplace insights.
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