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3 votes
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Amazon changed its search system to boost more-profitable listings, including its own brands
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The people who built Etsy dreamed of remaking commerce with their bare hands. Fifteen years later, its sellers are being asked to compete with Amazon.
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Amazon has ceded control of its site to third-party sellers. The result: thousands of banned, unsafe or mislabeled products
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What does Amazon's "Top Brand" badge actually mean?
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Up to 40% of retail stores in Finland could go bust by 2030 – competition from online retailers will bring major upheaval
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In the flesh: Online brands promise an escape from the conventional logic of consumerism — until they open physical stores
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EU opens Amazon antitrust investigation
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Road-tripping with the Amazon nomads - To stock Amazon’s shelves, merchants travel the backroads of America in search of rare soap and coveted toys
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What happens after Amazon’s domination is complete? Its bookstore offers clues
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"Amazon's Choice" is given to products automatically and doesn't indicate quality - Many have troubling product defects and warnings, as well as review manipulation
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Don’t know which toaster to buy? There’s a website for that: When did recommendation sites become such a central part of the online economy? And are they changing the way we shop?
8 votes -
Big Tech wanted to dethrone credit cards. Why it failed, and who wins now
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Meal kits have smaller carbon footprint than grocery shopping, study says
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The making of Amazon Prime - An oral history of the subscription service that changed online shopping forever
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Buying from Amazon: Three steps to find what you need and avoid fake reviews | No Sweat Tech
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Meal kit delivery services like Blue Apron have an overall smaller carbon footprint than grocery shopping because of less food waste and a more streamlined supply chain
10 votes -
Your very public Amazon shopping history is a window onto your soul
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Google is rolling out AMP for Gmail to let you shop and fill out forms without leaving your inbox
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Instagram adds in-app checkout as part of its big push into shopping
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What exactly is Amazon? This is the question that has consumed me for the last ten years.
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What it’s like working as an Amazon Flex delivery driver
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Amazon announces "Project Zero", a program which will allow brands to directly remove counterfeit listings
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Online grocery shopping has been slow to catch on - We shop online for almost everything. Why not food?
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I tried to block Amazon from my life. It was impossible
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Amazon unveiled Key for Garage—a system that allows Amazon drivers to unlock garage doors to make secure deliveries.
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Prime and punishment: Dirty dealing in the $175 billion Amazon Marketplace
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Instacart and Amazon-owned Whole Foods are parting ways
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Looking to cancel Amazon Prime for ethical reasons (and quality decline) - what are my alternatives for online shopping?
For the past few years, I've grown more and more uneasy with Amazon's business practices. I think it's time to move on. Not to mention the declining quality in products since international...
For the past few years, I've grown more and more uneasy with Amazon's business practices. I think it's time to move on. Not to mention the declining quality in products since international shippers were added (as discussed in the podcast Reply All).
I'm addicted to the convenience of 2 day shipping, even though we use Amazon less and less, I like knowing I have that option.
I've been considering a Costco membership instead - how does their online shopping and shipping times/prices compare?
I've also considered using Jet more but I don't know much about their ethics, does anyone?
Open to other alternatives and discussion about business ethics here.
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Card skimming malware removed from Infowars online store
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I bought used voting machines on eBay for $100 apiece. What I found was alarming.
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The end of cheap shipping from China - The White House wants to put an end to low-cost shipping from overseas
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Extra inventory, more sales, lower prices: how counterfeits benefit Amazon
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Scott Galloway's presentation from Monday at Recode's Code Commerce conference
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Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads, and they seem to be working
19 votes -
Google and Mastercard cut a secret ad deal to track retail sales
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I work in ML and more specifically algorithmic search
I'm interested in talking with anyone in eCommerce, or interested in ML, AI, Search or whatever you think I might care about ;) What do you all do?
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Some Amazon reviews are too good to be believed. They're paid for.
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India looking to compel e-commerce, social media firms to store data locally
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Sacha Baron Cohen puts Dick Cheney-signed waterboard kit on eBay
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Call for a general strike for Amazon workers across Europe during Amazon Prime Day
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Amazon, the brand buster
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Supreme Court rules states can force online retailers to collect sales tax
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Amazon Prime Wardrobe officially launches to all US Prime members
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Whole Foods starts discounts for Amazon Prime members — but only in Florida
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Inside the ecosystem that fuels Amazon's fake review problem
6 votes