Walmart Marketplace warned sellers to expect higher return volume throughout the year related to COVID, and it made some adjustments to its policies as a result.
“eCommerce volumes have seen an unprecedented spike and now retail is anticipating another less welcome surge, which will more than likely mimic the post-holiday return period,” it wrote in a post on Thursday.
“Navigating the forest of options for managing refunds and disputes can be daunting. However, we are glad to share an exciting update: recently we've initiated new efforts to revamp our returns policies and tools with the goal to help you manage your customer refunds more effectively. Ultimately, you'll have a lot more freedom to handle these cases, especially for fraudulent claims, which lets you keep your profits in the bank and not in dispute limbo.”
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New East Bay artisan food hall, Castro Valley Marketplace, makes its debut
Years in the planning, the Castro Valley Marketplace — the first Alameda County food hall south of Oakland — has finally made its debut.
The first tenants to open at what was a local landmark — the former Daughtrey’s department store — are the Castro Valley Natural Grocery, Barons Quality Meats & Seafood and the Seven Hills Baking Co.
Scheduled to open before the end of summer are the Oaktown Spice Shop, Amphora Nueva Olive Oil Works and four new restaurant-bars.
Flipkart acquires Walmart India to launch wholesale digital marketplace | ZDNet
Flipkart announced on Thursday it has acquired Walmart India to bolster its wholesale marketplace operations, and in doing so, has made plans to launch a new digital marketplace next month.
The new digital marketplace, called Flipkart Wholesale, will provide wholesale goods to kiranas in India. Kiranas are independent retailers and small businesses, similar to neighbourhood stores, that sell a variety of retail products.
With the acquisition, Flipkart said its supply chain will be strengthened due to the addition of Walmart India's 5,000 employees and its 28 member-only Best Price stores. Best Price currently has over 1.5 million members, Flipkart said, which include kiranas, eateries, and small and medium-sized businesses.
Google is coming after Amazon's marketplace merchants
(Bloomberg)— Google unveiled a major initiative to woo Amazon.com Inc. merchants on Thursday, part of a broader quest to be the main place people go when they want to buy something online.
The search giant said it will eliminate the fees it charges retailers to let people buy directly through the Google Shopping service. It's the latest in a series of moves the company has made to make it easier and cheaper for retailers to get products in front of millions of people who use Google's search engine every day.
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SF's Ferry Building Marketplace fully re-opens after being reclassified - SFGate
San Francisco's Ferry Building Marketplace announced Thursday that it is fully open for business, just three days after malls were ordered to close because the county was placed on the state watch list for increased transmission of the coronavirus.
Shops in the market hall without doors leading directly outside were ordered to close Wednesday, in accordance with a statewide public health order .
The following shops with dedicated exterior entrances had remained open: Acme Bread Co., Blue Bottle, Boulette's Larder, Hog Island Oyster Co., Gott's Roadside and Sur La Table.
Older volunteers are a key part of the food bank economy - Marketplace
The demand for services provided by food banks across the country has risen in this pandemic. For many food banks, older volunteers play a key role. When Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal spoke to Claire Babineaux-Fontenot , CEO of the hunger-relief charity Feeding America, in April, she told Ryssdal that “the majority of our 2 million volunteers in normal times are over 70 years old.”
She explained that she would never want a volunteer to risk their own health during the pandemic to come in, but the loss of many older volunteers was causing “an additional headwind for us.”
Crime Stoppers Crime of the Week: Man shot, carjacked during Facebook Marketplace meet-up
MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- A Milwaukee man was trying to sell a car online, but when he met the buyers they shot him. Now, Milwaukee Crime Stoppers needs your help bringing them to justice.
It was July 11 when the man arranged to meet three men who offered to by his minivan from Facebook Marketplace. He met around 4:30 p.m. near South Howell and Howard Avenues. That's when one of the suspects pulled out a gun and shot him in the stomach.
A surveillance picture captured the suspects in a stolen red minivan with front-end damage, two different rims and a hanging mirror.
LoneWolf Adds Adwerx To Its Den Of Marketplace Partners - Inman
LoneWolf Technologies has added Adwerx to its collection of technology vendors, called Marketplace. Adwerx has served up more than 15 billion online ad impressions to date.
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The latest to join the group is online advertising stalwart Adwerx . According to a press release, the new offering will bring targeted ad programs for real estate brokers and agents into LoneWolf's Transactions (the zipForm edition), the national transaction management member benefit in the U.S.
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