Amazon is taking more than half of each sale from its merchants while laying off Zappos workers

Grappling with slowing sales growth and rising costs, Amazon.com Inc. is squeezing more money from the nearly 2 million small businesses that sell products on its online marketplace. For the first time, Amazon’s average cut of each sale surpassed 50% in 2022, according to a study by Marketplace Pulse, which sampled seller transactions going back to 2016. […] The post Amazon is taking more than half of each sale from its merchants while laying off Zappos workers appeared first on Digital Commerce 360.