ICYMI: Amazon Seller News, Updates, Events, Resources, and More to Help You Sell Better

Every week we round up the most important, most interesting, most relevant, and sometimes most bizarre news for and about Amazon sellers. Check in each Friday afternoon to catch up on what’s making news this week. Amazon policy changes, FBA, logistics, fees, expansions, counterfeits, advertising and PPC, black-hat tactics, law and government involvement, warehouses and workers, privacy and data usage, intellectual property, seller liability, Prime Day, Q4 prep . . . if it’s news that affects Amazon sellers, you’ll find it here.

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This Week’s Big Story: Counterfeit Crackdown

• Amazon blocked 10 billion listings in counterfeit crackdown
• Amazon seized, destroyed two million fake products sent to warehouses in 2020
• Amazon suspended multiple Chinese sellers with $1 billion revenue – So what?
• Amazon Fake Review Scam Involved Over 200,000

Walmart

• Walmart acquires telehealth provider MeMD, upping competition in telehealth space
• New Data Reveals Website Visits Slow For Walmart And Remain Steady For Amazon 

TikTok Shops?

• TikTok is reportedly pulling a Facebook and adding in-app shopping

& More Top Amazon News

• Amazon mails postcards to sellers to verify whether their addresses are real
• Amazon Sidewalk launching in June with Tile trackers and others on shared network

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