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Walmart recently announced that Walmart+, a $98/yr membership that will compete directly with Amazon Prime, will now offer free shipping without the $35 minimum that has been required:

Walmart Plus drops $35 free shipping minimum to better compete with Amazon Prime Offering free delivery is a fierce competitive advantage, and Walmart has decided it needs it.

Walmart has passed Amazon as the top online food retailer, according to a survey of 1,000 adults conducted this month by TABS Analytics, a company that studies the consumer products industry. Walmart accounts for about 30% of online grocery transactions, similar to its level last year, but Amazon’s share has fallen to about 27% from about 33% in 2019.

Walmart overtakes Amazon as No. 1 in grocery e-commerce, study finds The retailer’s 30% piece of the online grocery segment puts it ahead of Amazon, which saw its share slip to 27%, according to a survey by TABS Analytics.

Despite online sales growing slower in July than in June, ecommerce sales are still up 55% year over year for the first seven months of the year, resulting in $434.5 billion in online spending, according to Adobe. And Adobe expects 2020 online sales to surpass the total online sales in 2019 by Oct. 5, 2020, “well before holidays season sales begin to ramp up,”

As pandemic pushes on, online sales grow 76% in June Although online shopping was up 55% in July compared with July 2019, online sales growth decreased from June, according to new data from Adobe.

Amazon pulls the advertising plug in "CRAP" products:

CNBC: Amazon suspends more ads for products that don't make money The e-commerce giant is reportedly pressuring brands to cut prices if they want to advertise products as it seeks to drive profitability for historically low-margin goods.