In a recent earnings call, Amazon's CEO Andy Jassy offered a profound insight into the challenges of maintaining competitiveness in the e-commerce landscape. His comments shed light on the intricate balance between lowering prices, expanding product selection, and managing operational costs.

Readers can expect an engaging and insightful breakdown of recent developments and hot topics in the world of commerce and technology. From the latest moves by industry giants like Shopify, Amazon, and Walmart to the struggles and triumphs of retail titans such as H&M and Macy's, this article offers a comprehensive overview of the ever-evolving landscape.

Get the latest Shopify news and updates in 2023! In this article, we’ll explore Shopify’s current state, its ambitions and innovations, and the challenges it must overcome to maintain its leadership position in 2023.

This article is about the strengths and weaknesses of Buy With Prime at its current state. How does it help brands and where can it improve?

The future of Shopify depends on its ability to meet the needs of its customers through continuously adapting and evolving. The eCommerce landscape is rapidly changing and Shopify, like many others, will need to continue to find ways to innovate. Learn more about Shopify's approach to payments and the implications for the future of ecommerce.

In this text, we will examine Target's recent performance, highlighting their Q4 2022 and full-year 2022 results, and discuss some of the key issues they are facing.

The art of storytelling is essential to creating a compelling story to the world. In this article, we will explore three levels of storytelling that can help leaders answer common questions by providing a clear understanding of the ideal customer profile (ICP), a mission-driven narrative, and an emotion-driven brand narrative.

One feature in the latest Shopify Editions release was "Shop Promise." It is a way for Shopify to let buyers know when an item will arrive, thus boosting conversion rates.

Here’s the TL;DR — It's not a Prime competitor and won't be soon. But if you compare yourself to Prime ("no subscription fees!") you had better be prepared for the comparison.

Shopify Editions announces a huge set of changes completed in the last 6 months, the chance to surprise with new, and some pre-announcements.

Hear from Nick Pendrous of H2 Brands, as he describes his experience working with RMW Commerce Consulting: The mission was simple — audit the company’s eCommerce infrastructure from end to end, with a particular focus on Amazon 3P marketplace, helping the company understand areas of relative weakness and strength.

You could do many things that you read somewhere, and many of these prescriptions are well-meaning, and many of those things might help.  The point of this article is to point out without a proper diagnosis, the prescription is almost useless. 

It feels this week that the efficiency strategy has finally flown into a mountain as Amazon has canceled one of the only programs which allowed customers to feel better about their purchase - Amazon Smile.

Walmart launching a program for small businesses and non-profits really tells me one thing.  They plan to use this program to take share from Staples, Office Depot, Amazon Business, and Costco. It could work.

If you’ve been running a service company or brand for some time and have crossed several million or more in revenue, you may be wondering what it takes to sell your business.

Andy Jassy published a note giving an update to the world on Amazon layoffs: the number is now 18,000 which is significant!

And by the way a lot of those numbers are from their people experience team -- so much for becoming Earth's Best Employer?

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This two-part series will introduce the problem to you, discuss the issues with Amazon First-Party (1P) Sales, and how Amazon Third-Party (3P) sales can help break the logjam. In particular, this series is designed for the thousands of brands out there with a multi-million dollar 1P business but for one reason or another have resisted Amazon 3P, but are now feeling squeezed.