Prime Day, EU Investigates Amazon for Antitrust, AVS Benchmark

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Amazon’s Prime Day Showed Y/Y Increases in Duration, Items Sold, and Competition Amazon announced that over 175 million items were purchased during this week’s Prime Day event (up from 100mm+ last year), surpassing Black Friday and Cyber Monday’s combined 2018 sales. Our research indicated that some of the key changes from…

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Amazon Pallet Program, Delivery Race, Bottlenecks

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Pallet Ordering at Amazon We have heard Amazon’s pallet ordering program come up more frequently over the last month. This program enables manufacturers to sell Amazon pallet quantities in exchange for a discount. The value of such a program will depend on several company-specific factors (discount required, potential savings, etc.),…

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Bezos Letter Highlights; 50 New Amazon Tools; Walmart Leading Online Grocery

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Source: Amazon.com Bezos Shareholder Letter Highlights 3P Strength Jeff Bezos released his annual shareholder letter today, which aimed at highlighting just how big of a positive impact the company has had on small business, employees, and advancing the economy.  The letter comes off to us at least as an attempt at…

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