Daily intel for cross-border sellers — products, policy, platforms, and the moves that work.
Direct Southeast Asia competitor expanding the same education-community model GSH uses, but anchored in Manila (Manila Times wire, April 28). Insight: SEA secondary-market expansion is contested ground now. GSH's edge is China sourcing depth — Smart Sellers's edge is English-firs…
Temu is now showing local-warehouse SKUs on its bestseller pages and has explicitly stated it intends to sell only goods from local merchants in the US for the foreseeable future (Marketplace Pulse, BoF). Shein US sales are down 23% for the same week. Both have shifted ad spend o…
Shopify sellers can list, sync inventory, and fulfill on Temu directly from their Shopify admin. Temu is openly courting US-based sellers post-de-minimis to rebuild margin. Temu is now a real third channel for established Shopify operators — not a "Chinese marketplace" anymore. W…
As per Modern Retail's Marketplace Briefing. Fewer than 8,000 sellers now do half of Amazon US 3P GMV. Marketplace Pulse's seller index of 181 sellers ($2B+ combined revenue) found only 23% are "thriving" (revenue + margin both up) while 38% are "distressed." The middle is collap…
AI-powered supplier matching layer with conditional payment release and verified factory data (Morningstar press release). So what: Free-tier sourcing AI directly competes with the human-agent SaaS layer GSH-style communities promote. Expect sourcing-agent fees to compress 20–30%…
