Devin Wenig buys his garbage bags, shampoo and even toothpaste on eBay. That’s not typical for your regular eBay customer, who may visit for a car, cardigan or collectible coin. But as eBay’s CEO, the 50-year-old Wenig likes to buy as much as he can from the site, now the world’s third-largest e-retailer after Amazon …
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Walking into a crafts supplies store, it’s not always easy to find the aisle where they keep the extra-bulky, hand-dyed pink merino wool yarn or the teardrop-shaped cultured sea glass beads. Sure, most people aren’t on the market for such specific items, but Etsy is hoping to make shopping for any craft supplies easier online, whether you’re a casual knitter …
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Walmart waited a decade to introduce a membership shipping service to compete against Amazon’s hugely successful Prime program. Less than two years later, it’s killing off the new service and changing tactics. The big-box retailer said Tuesday it got rid of ShippingPass, which offered unlimited two-day shipments on Walmart.com for $49 annually. In its place, Walmart cut the minimum for …
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Just when you thought Amazon couldn’t possibly add more buy buttons to its website… The online retailer on Thursday unveiled on its website and app new “virtual Dash buttons,” essentially one-click buy buttons that it’s placed on its home page and in a new “Your Dash Buttons” section on its site. The feature is only available for Amazon Prime members. …
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That RUN-DMC gear you bought online might not be legitimate. That’s the claim of one of the hip-hop group’s founders in a lawsuit filed Thursday in a New York federal court. The suit, filed by Darryl McDaniels, targets Amazon, Walmart and Jet.com and their partners for trademark infringement. “The products sold by the Defendants confuse the public as to the …
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Amazon Prime is really giving Santa Claus a run for his money. The Seattle-based retailer giant shipped more than 1 billion items with Prime around the world for the holiday season, more than five times its sales last holiday season, between November 1 to December 19. The Echo Dot was the most coveted gift out of items shipped from Amazon, …
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Jeff Bezos’ elves were busy. On Thursday morning, just three days before Christmas, a crew of Amazon employees darted around the company’s warehouse on the fifth floor of a Midtown Manhattan office building. They roamed the narrow aisles to fill brown paper bags with new orders of toiletries, Amazon devices and canned foods. Workers then brought carts filled with these …
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Amazon Prime has landed in China. The world’s biggest online retailer said Friday it brought a version of its popular Prime membership service to the country, offering unlimited free deliveries of a selection of US-shipped and domestic products for 388 yuan (about $57) a year through its Amazon.cn website. Until February 28 of next year, the company will offer a …
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The 1 billion listings for clothes, cars and cameras on eBay can often feel like one big mess. As part of the online bazaar’s effort to make it easier to find the stuff you want, eBay on Tuesday unveiled a beta version of an artificial-intelligence-powered shopping assistant on Facebook Messenger. People will be able to text, talk or take a …
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Now playing: Watch this: Facebook Marketplace attempts to take on Craigslist (again) 1:34 Enlarge Image Sceenshots of the new Marketplace. Facebook Dust off your Tiffany lamps. Facebook is throwing a giant neighborhood tag sale. The social network on Monday unveiled Marketplace, a new section of its mobile app that lets people list their furniture, cars and clothes for sale to …
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