1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital

Amazon rolling out ‘Buy with Prime’ for merchants outside its platform

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Amazon.com will enable merchants outside its online marketplace to make use of its payment and delivery services. In a pilot of “Buy With Prime” launched in April, shopper conversion increased by 25 percent, according to Amazon.

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