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🛒 Mass merchant marketplaces

• 🇺🇸 Amazon virtual care marketplace expands across the US. Launched in November 2022 to treat common health conditions such as pink eye and urinary tract infections. With Amazon Clinic, users can compare the response times and rates of different healthcare providers, complete a questionnaire, and connect with their chosen provider without an appointment or insurance. Deep dive → Investopedia

• 🇺🇸 Amazon’s Buy with Prime boosts merchants’ conversion by 25%. At launch, Buy with Prime allowed select Amazon merchants to sell their listed merchandise directly from their own websites. The new perk makes Amazon’s payments and fulfillment services available at checkout, giving shoppers the option to use their Amazon Prime membership. Deep dive → Pymnts

• 🇧🇷 Amazon set to launch a credit card in Brazil with Bradesco. Amazon also has a credit card offering in the U.S., where it partners with JPMorgan Chase. Deep dive → Reuters

• 🇵🇱 Allegro updated the best price guarantee feature. Allegro at least daily compares marketplace practices with other e-commerce stores, and if the price is the best, then Allegro highlights the price as green. If customers find a better price 72 hours after purchase, Allegro gives back 150% of the difference as an Allegro coupon. Deep dive → Android pl

• Wish plans to lay off 255 employees by the end of the year. The move affects about 160 of Wish’s U.S. employees, or about 41% of its domestic workforce, and about 95 non-U.S. employees, about 26% of its international workforce. Deep dive → RetailDrive

• Walmart Marketplace sellers can apply to sell in-store. Deep dive → EcommerceBytes

👗 Fashion marketplaces

• 🌎 Farfetch named a new CFO, Tim Stone. Tim joins next month with 20+ years of experience from Amazon and Ford Motor. Deep dive → Fibre2fashion

• 🇪🇺 Zalando reported an 87% increase YoY in adjusted EBIT in Q2 and for FY2023 now expects €300–350M (vs. €185M in 2022). GMV share of 3rd parties using the Zalando fulfillment service rose 7% vs. the last year. Deep dive → Zalando

• 🇬🇧 Vinted expands its partnership with InPost with in-shop parcel collection. InPost Shop service gives Vinted members in the UK the option of collecting parcels from participating stores, providing an additional out-of-home collection option alongside InPost’s 5,000-strong locker network. Deep dive → TalkingRetail

• 🇬🇧 Asos partnered with Rokt to deliver targeted external post-purchase promotions. AI and Machine learning tech from RokT will enable ASOS to unlock first-party data and create personalized customer experiences, highly relevant to individual customers. Deep dive → WWD

• 🇫🇷 La Redoute B2B segment has experienced high growth recently. The key driver for growth is the hotel segment, which, e.g. in Portugal corresponds to 40% of La Redoute business. Deep dive → Economia ao minuto

🍔 Food marketplaces

• 🌎 Uber Eats has partnered with the San Francisco Giants to provide in-seat delivery at Oracle Park. It is the second venue after Yankee Stadium from Major League Baseball team. In addition to stadiums, Uber Eats offers mobile ordering for pickup at 7 US stadiums and 5 international venues. Deep dive → RestaurantDive

• 🇺🇸 DoorDash lifts its core profit target for the second time on higher orders. The delivery firm posted its highest revenue since its IPO in Dec. 2020 as people stick to the pandemic trend of buying from their homes, thanks to promotions, deals, and free deliveries with subscription passes by DoorDash and its rivals. Deep dive → Reuters

• 🇺🇸 DoorDash dives into Brick-and-Mortar by opening its first food hall. The new food hall for 10 local restaurants will be able to accommodate deliveries, food pick-ups, and in-restaurant dining. Deep dive →  SiliconVallay

• 🇸🇬 Grab expands into dine-in services as explosive growth stalls. Grab is testing its dine-in feature across 15 cities in Singapore, Thailand, and Indonesia, allowing users to pre-purchase dine-in vouchers at up to 50% discounts. App users can also view restaurants’ menus and reviews, order and pay via a QR-based system, and book rides to restaurants. Deep dive → CNBC

• 🇸🇬 Deliveroo partnered with Gojek to gain an edge in food delivery. Companies signed a long-term partnership agreement to collaboratively enhance experiences across both platforms. Companies will introduce extensive new benefits and drive cross-platform savings for both Deliveroo and Gojek users. Deep dive → Marketing Interactive

• 🇪🇸 Glovo could be prosecuted in Spain for criminal proceedings for false self-employment. Through El País, the Secretary of State for Labor, Pérez Rey, threatens Glovo with jail terms for, he says, failing to comply with the rider law. Deep dive → libremercado | ara

📦Various marketplaces

• 🌎 Rakuten partners with OpenAI to explore commercial opportunities together and to collaborate on the use of OpenAI apps in Rakuten products and services. Deep dive → Reuters

• 🌎  Booking.com partnered with BeCause to automate the properties’ sustainability credentials. Enterprise software will automate the management of information about properties’ sustainability certifications and features. Deep dive → Sustainablebrands

• 🌎 Pinterest revenue beats estimates on shopping push. Sales increased 6% to $708M in H1, exceeding the $699M forecast. Pinterest is pushing for shoppable content, similar to other social media platforms. Deep dive → DigitalCommerce360

• 🌎 Trivago weak 2Q results due to opting out from Google's new Ad unit. Trivago decided not to advertise in Google’s new property promotion ads because they are part of Google hotel ads, which didn’t perform well for Trivago. Deep dive → Skift

• 🇬🇧 Etsy is scrambling to avert a widespread sellers' strike. UK vendors started boycotting the platform over its payment reserve system. Deep dive → Quartz

• 🇺🇸 Wayfair new app, Decorify, uses generative AI to let users create photo-realistic room images for design purposes. Deep dive → TechCrunch

🌟Funding/new marketplaces

• Minted launches a wedding marketplace. Minted launched in 2007 as a premium design marketplace based on independent artists from all around the world. The wedding marketplace will follow the same model. Deep dive → RetailDive

• Airalo raises $60M for the eSIM Marketplace. Airalo gives travelers access to various eSIM options covering more than 200 countries and regions. Deep dive → Skift

• Cohart raised $4M for the social art marketplace. Cohart marketplace allows one to discover, buy, sell, and engage with art. Deep dive → TechCrunch