There are obviously as Blake alluded to different regulations, not just in terms of what's sold, but there's a certain amount that can be sold in certain states and other states don't have anything on the books and that's just like if you're running a delivery platform, that's really frustrating to deal with so they have a major incentive to work on this. Sara Lebow:.
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| Feb 14, 2024
Building on a suggestion, I'm reading this book Filterworld right now by Kyle Chayka that's really talking about this algorithmic fatigue that you get with these sorts of things, and it does get rid of the thrill of the find of finding a product that you like and of looking through a magazine. Now we're getting into old media, but of curated styles that are curated across the board, maybe not for you.
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| Feb 21, 2024
So fast-forward to December 31st, 2024, we hang out again, we're looking back at the year, what will the history books tell us about the year? Max Willens:.
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| Jan 11, 2024
This has already been the case for books, music, and video, but it won’t be the only ecommerce-majority category for long. Computer and consumer electronics will cross 50% in 2024 and continue to shift in the coming years, as will toys and hobby in 2025 and furniture and home furnishings in 2027. Toys and hobby will see the most significant shift.
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| Mar 15, 2023
Consumers pulled back spending on stores selling sporting goods, musical instruments, and books, per US Commerce Department data, as cited by The Wall Street Journal. They also cut their spending at gas stations. May 15, 2023. A long way down: Consumer sentiment dropped to 57.7 this month, down from 63.5 in April. This was the lowest reading since:. A) February 2023. B) January 2023. C) December 2022.
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| Apr 15, 2024
You broke every rule in the book right now. Suzy Davidkhanian:. What's new? Ask Marcus. Sara Lebow:. So Becky, are you accepting moving Target down and maybe replacing Abercrombie & Fitch? Suzy Davidkhanian:. I would replace it with the one I'm going to add. Sara Lebow:. Okay. Will you move Target down to four, Becky? Becky Schilling:. I will accept that move. Sara Lebow:. I'll accept it too.
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| Mar 26, 2024
You can't buy, for instance, a Kindle book on either Android or iOS through the app. You need to use the browser to do that. You can't do it through the Amazon app, at least. So that does push people more towards the browser, so that is one slight counterpoint.
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| Jan 9, 2024
About 41% of all consumers want to book visits online. Millennials (55%) feel the strongest about using digital self-scheduling instead of the phone, according to an August 2022 Kyruus survey. Efficiency is a must.
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| Mar 13, 2023
And this sparked a viable craze among Chinese aspirational luxury shoppers because the travel book is expensive for a book, but it's nowhere near the price of a Louis Vuitton handbag. And some even went to all the shops that they could to buy different books so that they could collect all of the tote bags.
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| Oct 4, 2023
Motor vehicle and parts dealer sales; furniture sales; electronics and appliance sales; building material and garden equipment sales; food and beverage sales; health and personal care sales; gasoline sales; clothing and clothing accessories sales; sporting goods, hobby, book, and physical music sales; general merchandise sales; miscellaneous sales; nonstore sales (i.e., pure-play ecommerce platform sales
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Source: EMARKETER; Bizrate Insights
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Source: EMARKETER; Bizrate Insights
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Source: Bizrate Insights; Insider Intelligence
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| Dec 30, 2023
Source: Bizrate Insights; Insider Intelligence
Books and games rank highest for purchase consideration. Nearly three-quarters of respondents in Morning Consult’s October 2022 survey said they would consider purchasing these secondhand. Tools and cars ranked ahead of clothing, with furniture and home decor close behind. Even secondhand gifting is losing stigma.
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| Apr 3, 2023
Amazon Books, which opened in Seattle in 2015. Amazon did have some locations that you might call brick and mortars before that, but they were all sort of for ordering and picking up packages, so I'm not calling them stores.
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| Oct 10, 2023
We include the following consumer categories in our definition of total retail and ecommerce sales: motor vehicle and parts dealer sales; furniture sales; electronics and appliance sales; building material and gardening equipment sales; food and beverage sales; health and personal care sales; gasoline sales; clothing and clothing accessories sales; sporting goods, hobby, book, and physical music sales;
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| Nov 1, 2023
Change is coming to Amazon: Amid slowing ecommerce growth, Amazon split its stock, saw its consumer chief resign, and announced plans to shutter its Chinese ebook store.
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| Jun 6, 2022
You can write a book in that amount of time. You can plan a wedding in the amount of time. That's a lot of time. I wish I had that time back so I can get back home earlier and get a workout in. Or maybe read these articles that we're supposed to today. Yeah. Marcus Johnson:. Okay, great. Thanks. Zach Goldner:. I'll save my time. Marcus Johnson:. No one reads. If you lived in the UK, Zach, you might.
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Well, it sounds a lot like the music video from Take On Me by A-ha, where the comic book comes out and goes into the real world and it goes on the adventure with that girl and has a great little ending. But this seems like a more corporate, product-based version of that.
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| Mar 8, 2024
And most people read about, I think it was a book or a book and a half according to Pure Research a month. So it's plenty for the average person. If you're a incredibly fast reader, then maybe it's not enough, but it's more than enough. Carina Perkins:. Fast reader. Listen really quickly. Marcus Johnson:. I read pretty fast. Evelyn Mitchell-Wolf:. Well, you can listen to them on 1.5 speed.
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| Nov 30, 2023
Oh, a book? Sara Lebow:. Not a book. The first item that was transacted on eBay was a broken laser pointer. When I looked this up to confirm it, not only does eBay confirm that the 1995 sale occurred for $14.83, but they also have a video of the buyer, a man named Mark Frazier, talking about his purchase. Why did he buy it? Because he wanted to fix a laser pointer.
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| Oct 25, 2023
Health and personal care will drive growth but won’t be enough to improve Amazon’s share of the overall US ecommerce market.
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| Mar 24, 2023