Alibaba Is Now Competing With Amazon on Its Home Turf. Wholesale Is the Start.

While running Amazon Marketplace stores, my biggest concern was not Amazon’s fees, but rather their use of my sales data to go into competition with me. Alibaba is promising data privacy, which may become their strongest selling point. I would not be surprised to see them opening a US consumer operation and going head-to-head with Amazon – and since many Amazon Marketplace sellers are China based, Alibaba may be able to jumpstart their seller base very rapidly.

Alibaba Is Now Competing With Amazon on Its Home Turf. Wholesale Is the Start.