Welcome to 3PM Snacks, a mid-week (and mid-day!) rundown of what's going on in the worlds of eCommerce, big data, and artificial intelligence. We hope you find it informative and easy to digest. Let's go... Goliath vs. Goliath According to a CNBC article earlier this week, Walmart appears to be gaining ground in its eternal battle [...]
3PM Solutions’ CEO and Founder Rob Dunkel was featured in a recent CBC News investigation, exposing the growing problem of expired food products being sold on Amazon. Here's the key excerpt: U.S. data analytics firm 3PM Solutions recently analyzed Amazon.com's 100 bestselling food products for CNBC. The firm found that at least 40 per cent of third-party sellers had [...]
Welcome to 3PM Snacks, a mid-week (and mid-day!) rundown of what's going on in the worlds of eCommerce, big data, and artificial intelligence. We hope you find it informative and easy to digest. Let's go... Every Day is Now Black Friday It's not Black Friday yet -- it's not even November yet -- but that apparently [...]
Welcome to 3PM Snacks, a mid-week (and mid-day!) rundown of what's going on in the worlds of eCommerce, big data, and artificial intelligence. We hope you find it informative and easy to digest. Let's go... "You Can Find Anecdotes to Support Whatever Conclusion You Want" Amazon consumer chief Jeff Wilke took the stage the Wall Street [...]
CNBC dropped a bombshell of an article on Sunday, reporting on how Amazon's third-party sellers are frequently shipping food that has long-since expired. 3PM Solutions spent over a month helping CNBC research this story, providing data and insights, and we're pleased to see that this issue -- which we have long observed in our data -- [...]
Welcome to 3PM Snacks, a mid-week (and mid-day!) rundown of what's going on in the worlds of eCommerce, big data, and artificial intelligence. We hope you find it informative and easy to digest. Let's go... Some Obsessions are Good It turns out that customer service is just as important today as it was in the 1960s, [...]
Welcome to 3PM Snacks, a mid-week (and mid-day!) rundown of what's going on in the worlds of eCommerce, big data, and artificial intelligence. We hope you find it informative and easy to digest. Let's go... Google Shopping Gets a Face-Lift Google released its latest redesign of the Google Shopping experience, offering customers a simpler, more personalized [...]
Welcome to 3PM Snacks, a mid-week (and mid-day!) rundown of what's going on in the worlds of eCommerce, big data, and artificial intelligence. We hope you find it informative and easy to digest. Let's go... Notorious A.M.A.Z.O.N. For the second year in a row, the American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA) has recommended that Amazon be [...]
Welcome to 3PM Snacks, a mid-week (and mid-day!) rundown of what's going on in the worlds of eCommerce, big data, and artificial intelligence. We hope you find it informative and easy to digest. Let's go... Introducing the Echo Everything If you didn't already know, Amazon wants its Alexa voice assistant to be everywhere -- in your [...]
3PM Solutions’ Chief Product Officer Jon Derkits was featured in a recent Wired article, offering insight into Amazon's information security as it relates to developer access to the Marketplace Web Services API: "Data privacy is a hot topic in the current sociopolitical climate, and Amazon doesn’t want to be on the bad end of that conversation,” [...]
