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Allison Smith

New York

E-Commerce Platforms Reporter at Modern Retail

🌈 she/they • reporter @modernretail, opinions are my own • 🖊️ in @business @GuardianUS @GrubStreet • tips to [email protected] • DM for Signal

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Articles

  • Trump's trade war is already throwing a wrench into holiday planning

    1 week ago | modernretail.co | Mitchell Parton |Allison Smith

    Manufacturers, importers and retailers are beginning to formulate plans for the first holiday season under President Trump’s 145% tariff on China and varied rates on other countries. But, doing so feels like one giant guessing game. Maybe there will be lower tariffs by then. Or maybe, there won’t be any tariffs at that point. The only thing that is certain about the holidays is that things are uncertain.

  • Marketplace Briefing: As tariffs snarl price negotiations, some Amazon suppliers consider a shift to third-party selling

    1 week ago | modernretail.co | Allison Smith

    This is the latest installment of the Marketplace Briefing, a weekly Modern Retail+ column about the ever-changing e-commerce marketplace landscape. More from the series →A growing number of Amazon’s wholesale suppliers are weighing a major shift in their business model: ditching Amazon’s first-party vendor program in favor of becoming third-party sellers on its marketplace.

  • Temu’s 'import surcharges' fuel outrage

    2 weeks ago | modernretail.co | Allison Smith

    The days of $2 gadgets and $5 dresses are ending at Temu and Shein, and early signs suggest not all customers are willing to stick around. Both companies, which built their U.S. empires on ultra-cheap goods sourced from China, enacted broad price increases on April 25 as the Trump administration moves to close the de minimis loophole — which exempted shipments under $800 from duties — and impose a steep 145% tariffs on many imports from China.

  • Why Selena Gomez’s Rare Beauty is betting on Substack as brands embrace long-form content

    2 weeks ago | modernretail.co | Allison Smith

    Selena Gomez-founded Rare Beauty has become the latest company to join Substack’s growing roster of branded newsletters, using the platform to peel back the curtain on product development, team culture and behind-the-scenes stories.

  • Marketplace Briefing: Amazon’s Buy With Prime ambitions go global with Shopline deal

    2 weeks ago | modernretail.co | Allison Smith

    This is the latest installment of the Marketplace Briefing, a weekly Modern Retail+ column about the ever-changing e-commerce marketplace landscape. More from the series →Amazon is accelerating efforts to extend its signature Prime benefits to more direct-to-consumer brands beyond its own marketplace.

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Allison Nicole Smith
Allison Nicole Smith @allison_n_smith
13 Mar 25

Scoop: Kohl's has stopped accepting Amazon returns at select retail locations as part of a temporary test, the company confirmed to Modern Retail. Check out the full story here: https://t.co/4DjyFuhw55

Allison Nicole Smith
Allison Nicole Smith @allison_n_smith
10 Mar 25

🛑New from me: Some third-party sellers on Amazon are worried that boycotts against the company will hurt them more than the e-commerce giant. https://t.co/4VTjt789ku

Allison Nicole Smith
Allison Nicole Smith @allison_n_smith
29 Jan 25

RT @caleweissman: Always annoying to see good pubs like @theinformation publish stories we broke a week ago without any attribution https:/…