We’re back with another episode of the Weekly Buzz with Helium 10’s Principal Brand Evangelist and Walmart Expert, Carrie Miller. Every week, we cover the latest breaking news in the Amazon, Walmart, and E-commerce space, interview someone you need to hear from and provide a training tip for the week.

Amazon updates its dietary supplements seller’s policy
https://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/Article/2024/04/05/Amazon-updates-its-dietary-supplements-seller-s-policy#

eBay Uses AI to Deliver Personalized Recommendations to Fashion Shoppers
https://www.pymnts.com/news/ecommerce/2024/ebay-uses-ai-to-deliver-personalized-recommendations-to-fashion-shoppers/

Magento bug exploited to steal payment data from ecommerce websites
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/magento-bug-exploited-to-steal-payment-data-from-ecommerce-websites

Amazon invests $25 million in a 10-year research collaboration to advance AI
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/innovation-at-amazon/amazon-invests-25-million-in-a-10-year-research-collaboration-to-advance-ai

Amazon announces over €700 million investment in robotics and AI powered technologies across Europe
https://www.aboutamazon.eu/news/innovation/amazon-announces-over-700-million-investment-in-robotics-and-ai-powered-technologies-across-europe

Exclusive: The FTC is probing Amazon’s new controversial fees in its $140 billion seller business
https://fortune.com/2024/03/08/ftc-amazon-seller-fees-inbound-placement-low-inventory-antitrust/

We’re proud to announce the launch of the new and improved Freedom Ticket course! Our award-winning, best-in-class FBA course has been streamlined and updated, so it delivers even more value in less time—setting up Freedom Ticket students just like you for sustainable Amazon success in 2024 and beyond.
https://www.helium10.com/blog/freedom-ticket-fba-course/

And, for an added edge in the e-commerce arena, Carrie Miller shows us a savvy strategy for leveraging Helium 10's Cerebro for your Walmart listings, serving up another round of invaluable tips and tricks for selling on Walmart.com.

In this episode of the Weekly Buzz by Helium 10, Carrie covers:

00:46 - Supplement Policy Update

02:05 - Ebay Utilizes AI

02:57 - Magento Payment Vulnerability

03:36 - Amazon Invests in AI

06:35 - FTC Probing about New Fees

07:15 - New Freedom Ticket Course

09:35 - Pro Training Tip: Cerebro for Walmart


Transcript

Carrie Miller:

Amazon updates its dietary supplement sellers policy. Amazon and eBay invest heavily in AI for their e-commerce platforms, and what does the FTC have to say about all of the new fees for storage that Amazon has imposed? This and so much more on this week's episode of the Weekly Buzz.

Bradley Sutton:

How cool is that? Pretty cool, I think

Carrie Miller:

Welcome to another episode of the Serious Sellers podcast hosted by Helium 10. My name is Carrie and this is our weekly buzz episode, where we give you all of the latest Amazon, Walmart and e-commerce news. We also give you a serious strategy for serious sellers at any level. So let's go ahead and see what's buzzing. Okay, so let's go ahead and get into our first article, and this first article is about how Amazon is updating their dietary supplement sellers policy. Now, this is kind of a long time coming. This has been in the works for a few years, and so basically, what's happening is, instead of the seller being able to send in their third party testing and certificates and just submit them through Seller Central, now the analysis has to be done and sent straight from a lab to Amazon. So it's actually a more direct approach. They want to make sure they can really verify that these supplements have been third-party tested, and that goes for all the compliance that they have. So what it says is that if you want to ensure that your listings are compliant with the policy, that you just need to go to manage your compliance dashboard and initiate the test for each of these products. This actually came