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Jul 30, 2026

DoorDash Wants to Own the Air Lane

The delivery platform is adding its own aircraft, air-carrier operation and dispatch stack to a network built around human couriers and partners

Jul 30, 2026

Quick Commerce Meets Basket Math

Blinkit profits while Zepto and Instamart expose opposite constraints in India’s quick-commerce model

Jul 29, 2026

eBay's $55.7 Million Governance Bill

The settlement turns a campaign against independent critics into a public platform-accountability test.

Jul 29, 2026

Why AI Search Needs Four Playbooks

Citation patterns shift by engine and buying stage, punishing brands that chase one-size-fits-all optimization.

Jul 29, 2026

Price Rewrites the Ecommerce Conversion Benchmark

Why category economics decide whether a low conversion rate signals friction or normal deliberation

Jul 29, 2026

Supermarkets Are Losing The Digital Order

Walmart keeps nearly every eGrocery order first-party as supermarket control slips further toward marketplaces

Jul 29, 2026

UPS Proves Volume Is Not the Prize

The carrier cut cheap Amazon parcels, raised guidance and reset the economics of delivery scale

Jul 29, 2026

PayPal Turns Checkout Into Identity Infrastructure

Slow core growth forces a bet on agentic payments, digital identity and higher-value users

Jul 28, 2026

Meta Profitability Needs More Than CPM

Category benchmarks expose a useful ratio—and the economics it still fails to measure

Jul 28, 2026

OpenAI's $100B Ads Math Problem

Audience scale is only half the battle; mature search monetization is the harder build.

Archive

DoorDash Wants to Own the Air Lane

Quick Commerce Meets Basket Math

eBay's $55.7 Million Governance Bill

Why AI Search Needs Four Playbooks

Price Rewrites the Ecommerce Conversion Benchmark

Supermarkets Are Losing The Digital Order

UPS Proves Volume Is Not the Prize

PayPal Turns Checkout Into Identity Infrastructure

Meta Profitability Needs More Than CPM

OpenAI's $100B Ads Math Problem

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Archive

DoorDash Wants to Own the Air Lane

Quick Commerce Meets Basket Math

eBay's $55.7 Million Governance Bill

Why AI Search Needs Four Playbooks

Price Rewrites the Ecommerce Conversion Benchmark

Supermarkets Are Losing The Digital Order

UPS Proves Volume Is Not the Prize

PayPal Turns Checkout Into Identity Infrastructure

Meta Profitability Needs More Than CPM

OpenAI's $100B Ads Math Problem

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.
Always data-driven, always stunning in under five minutes.