3PM Snacks – Wednesday, November 6
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 [...]
Complaints mount after Amazon sends food that’s expired or past its best-before date
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 [...]
3PM Snacks – Wednesday, October 30
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 [...]
3PM Snacks – Wednesday, October 23
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 [...]
Amazon is shipping expired food, from baby formula to old beef jerky, scaring consumers and putting big brands at risk
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 [...]
3PM Snacks – Wednesday, October 16
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 [...]
3PM Snacks – Wednesday, October 9
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, [...]
3PM Snacks – Wednesday, October 2
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 [...]
3PM Snacks – Wednesday, September 25
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 [...]
Amazon Cracks Down on Third-Party Apps Over Privacy Violations
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 [...]
3PM Snacks – Wednesday, September 18
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... The Cost of Doing Business In an update of a study performed this time last [...]
3 ?’s Lawmakers Should Ask Amazon
By Rob Dunkel It has been a tumultuous year for Amazon. The eCommerce giant has been in the news often, and for all the wrong reasons. To list all of them would be veritable alphabet soup of criticisms: Anti-competitive practices, Bogus “Amazon’s Choice” badging, Counterfeit products, Defective third-party products, Extreme warehouse working conditions, Fake product reviews…and [...]
3PM Snacks – Wednesday, September 11
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... Amazon is Investing in Warehouses Amazon is in the midst of a BIG capital investment [...]
3PM Snacks – Wednesday, September 4
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... How to Write Amazon Product Titles That Drive Clicks TL,DR version: Be concise. Slightly longer [...]
3PM Snacks – Wednesday, August 28
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... Reviewjacking on Amazon If you didn't know by now, Amazon is filled with sketchy reviews. [...]
3PM Snacks – Wednesday, August 21
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... A David Vs. Goliath Story Amidst antitrust investigations by the DOJ and FTC, Amazon now [...]
3PM Snacks – Wednesday, August 14
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... Sold By Amazon: The Right Program At The Wrong Time? As first reported by CNBC, [...]
3PM Solutions’ Comments Regarding Presidential Memorandum on Combating Trafficking in Counterfeit and Pirated Goods
On July 10, 2019, the Department of Commerce (DOC) issued a request in the Federal Register seeking comments from various stakeholders on the state of counterfeit and pirated goods trafficking through online third-party marketplaces and recommendations for curbing the trafficking in such counterfeit and pirated goods. 3PM Solutions was invited [...]
How Serious Is Amazon’s Counterfeit Problem? 3 Things To Take Away From Its Latest Lawsuit
By Jon Derkits On June 26, 2019, Amazon and Boulder-based company Nite Ize jointly filed a complaint in the US District Court in the Western District of Washington against 21 defendants for alleged selling counterfeit Nite Ize products on the Amazon marketplace. This lawsuit represents the latest in a series of [...]
How to save money on Amazon Prime Day (without overspending)
3PM Solutions' Chief Product Officer Jon Derkits was featured in an NBC News article today, offering consumers advice on "How to save money on Amazon Prime Day (without overspending)." In the article, Jon drew on his Amazon experience managing the third-party marketplace for Amazon.ca and shared ways that consumers can [...]
3PM Welcomes Former Amazonian as Chief Product Officer
3PM Solutions is pleased to announce and welcome Jon Derkits as Chief Product Officer (CPO). Jon joins 3PM from Amazon, where he served as the third-party marketplace leader for Consumer Electronics on Amazon.ca for the past three years. In that capacity, he was in charge of category strategy, catalog quality, [...]