{"id":12895,"date":"2019-06-21T10:53:25","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T09:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.repricerexpress.com\/?p=12895"},"modified":"2024-01-23T12:04:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T12:04:55","slug":"amazon-news-210619","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.repricerexpress.com\/amazon-news-210619\/","title":{"rendered":"The Top 5 Amazon News Stories of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Welcome to our weekly roundup of the top five Amazon news stories of the week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Amazon Private Label Brands now open to sellers in Europe:<\/strong> Chris Dawson at <a href=\"https:\/\/tamebay.com\/\">Tamebay<\/a> reports that Amazon has announced that they are opening up their own Amazon private label brands to sellers for the first time in Europe. Amazon private label brands are products manufactured or packaged for sale under an Amazon brand rather than that of the manufacturer. Products for particular Amazon private label brands may be manufactured by multiple suppliers rather than all coming from a single source, so you may be interested in supplying a range of products or a single product line. <a href=\"https:\/\/tamebay.com\/2019\/06\/amazon-private-label-brands-now-open-to-sellers-in-europe.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jet.com falls by wayside as Walmart focuses on its website, online grocery:<\/strong> Nandita Bose at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/\">Reuters<\/a> reports that Walmart has announced a sweeping overhaul at Jet.com after it failed to live up to the world\u2019s largest retailer\u2019s ecommerce ambitions. Walmart said it will integrate Jet.com\u2019s retail, technology, marketing, analytics and product teams with its own online business. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-walmart-jet-com\/jetcom-falls-by-wayside-as-walmart-focuses-on-its-website-online-grocery-idUSKCN1TD2PS?ck_subscriber_id=18915161\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Branding is the key to more ecommerce sales:<\/strong> Pamela Hazelton at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/\">Practical Ecommerce<\/a> reports that positive branding is critical for any business. It takes a lot of work over time, but the benefits make it worthwhile. The products you sell, interactions with shoppers, transparency \u2014 all impact branding. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/branding-is-the-key-to-more-ecommerce-sales\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Petition calls on Netflix to cancel Amazon Prime&#8217;s &#8216;blasphemous&#8217; Good Omens:<\/strong> Shelby Brown at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/\">CNET<\/a> reports that more than 20,000 people have signed a petition by the Return to Order campaign demanding the series Good Omens be removed from Netflix. The trouble is the show is streamed on Amazon Prime. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/petition-calls-on-netflix-to-cancel-amazon-primes-blasphemous-good-omens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Amazon wants to sell \u201csurveillance as a service\u201d:<\/strong> Alsion Griswold at <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/\">Quartz<\/a> reports that recently received a US patent to provide \u201csurveillance as a service.\u201d The patent is for an \u201cunmanned aerial vehicle\u201d\u2014the technical term for a drone\u2014that \u201cmay perform a surveillance action at a property of an authorized party\u201d and could \u201cimage the property to generate surveillance images.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1648875\/amazon-receives-us-patent-for-surveillance-as-a-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Quote of the week:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do.\u201d<br \/>\n<em>Francine Jay, author<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Have a great weekend!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dashboard.repricer.com\/register\/do\/repricer?utm_source=rex-blog&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=rex-to-repricer-registration&amp;utm_activity=take-action\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10735 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.repricerexpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/prime-day-2017-slider.gif\" alt=\"RepricerExpress Amazon Prime Day offer 2017\" width=\"940\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to our weekly roundup of the top five Amazon news stories of the week. Amazon Private Label Brands now open to sellers in Europe: Chris Dawson at Tamebay reports that Amazon has announced that they are opening up their own Amazon private label brands to sellers for the first time in Europe. Amazon private [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Top 5 Amazon News Stories of the Week<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"RepricerExpress&#039; review of the top Amazon news stories from around the Web this week. 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