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Ecommerce Briefs: Walmart Wins Flipkart; Amazon Expands Prime; Target Beefs Up

In “Ecommerce Briefs,” I address news and developments from online merchants. In this installment, I’ll review Walmart’s purchase of a majority interest in Flipkart, India’s dominant marketplace. I’ll also address Amazon’s expansion of its Prime program and Target’s recent moves to beef up its Restock and parking-lot pickup services. Walmart Wins Flipkart Walmart bested Amazon […]

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Walmart Competes Against Amazon for Flipkart Buy-In, $12 Billion Offered for Controlling Stake

US companies Walmart and Amazon are competing to acquire a controlling stake in Flipkart, India’s leading eCommerce company. Walmart has completed an in-depth due diligence on its proposed majority ownership in the Indian firm. However, rival Amazon also wants to put in a bid and offers a ‘breakup fee’ of $1 billion to $2 billion,

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Ecommerce Briefs: Walmart, Amazon Vie for Flipkart; Etsy and Adidas Refocus

“Ecommerce Briefs” is my occasional series of news and developments from online merchants. In this installment, I’ll address the competition between Walmart and Amazon to acquire Flipkart, India’s dominant marketplace. I’ll also review the closing of Etsy Wholesale, the company’s brick-and-mortar partnership, and Adidas’s decision to shut down hundreds of physical stores to focus on

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Walmart is Using Acquisitions to Reign in Millennials, eCommerce Head Marc Lore Reveals Strategy at ShopTalk 2018

Walmart will continue its buying spree of digital brands in 2018 as it aims to build and differentiate its online inventory in competing against Amazon. Marc Lore, eCommerce head of the world’s largest retailer, revealed that there’s a bigger strategy involved with Walmart’s bullish acquisitions during the Shoptalk conference in Las Vegas on last Tuesday.

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Walmart Builds Giant Private Cloud to Take on Amazon

Walmart knows that to win big, it has to bet big as well. In its multibillion-dollar battle against online retailer rival Amazon, brick-and-mortar giant Walmart made a big bet in upgrading the technology behind is operations which include putting up with the world biggest private cloud. And it seems to be paying off. In order

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Ecommerce Briefs: Alibaba Eyes Kroger; Walmart Partners with Rakuten

“Ecommerce Briefs” is my occasional series of news and developments from online merchants. In this installment, I’ll address grocery wars, international expansion by Amazon and Walmart, and Pepsi’s embrace of ecommerce. Alibaba Eyes Kroger In an effort to diversify and expand, Alibaba, the Chinese ecommerce giant, is following in Amazon’s footsteps with its “New Retail”

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The top Walmart and Amazon product page experiences of 2017

There isn’t “one thing” separating a great product page from a terrible one. Instead, brands in 2018 should think holistically about how they are crafting a positive consumer experience on their product pages — even on third-party retailer sites. At a very high level, brands can boil this concept down to execution across eight product

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Ecommerce Briefs: Walmart, Whole Foods, Target, Shipt

“Ecommerce Briefs” is my occasional series of news and developments from online merchants. In this installment, I’ll address the continuing omnichannel wars between Walmart and Amazon as well as some interesting moves by Target in its efforts to increase share in the ecommerce arena. Walmart In one of the more interesting partnerships, Walmart and high-end

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Robot Burger Flippers. Amazon vs Walmart. Can AI Detect Suicidal Thoughts? – The Brief for 11.29.17

Here are the notes from the Chris Brogan Media broadcast for 11/29/17. (You can watch this on my Facebook account). The goal of these posts is that there are trends and ideas here that might impact your business now or soon. Think on the stories here and look for ways to adjust your business accordingly.

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