May 17, 2026

If you sell on Amazon FBA, check your seller central this week. Amazon ran its monthly aged inventory assessment on May 15, and the charges hit accounts between today and Friday. This is only the second time these charges have posted under the new 181-day threshold that took effect April 17, which means a lot […]

Welcome to today’s Paradise Report. Trevor here with Ecommerce Paradise, and this is the daily roundup of what small ecommerce founders and location-independent entrepreneurs need to know across ecommerce, AI, and the lifestyle beat. Sunday is usually a slower news day, but today is anything but. Klaviyo just married Anthropic’s Claude into its core platform,

For the first time since Amazon began breaking the number out in 2004, the share of paid units sold on Amazon by third-party sellers has now fallen for two consecutive quarters. Third-party sellers accounted for 60% of paid units in Q1 2026, down from 61% in Q4 2025 and 62% the quarter before that. After

As of this past week, the two parcel carriers that handle the vast majority of international ecommerce shipments to and from the United States have stacked a fresh wave of fuel surcharge increases and per-pound surge fees on top of an already brutal 2026 cost curve. The largest move took effect Monday, May 11, 2026,