E-commerce reaching levels it hasn't released since COVID.

Big changes coming to Amazon Alexa.

Walmart releases a new virtual shopping environment.

These stories and more on today's weekly buzz.

How cool is that?

Pretty cool, I think.

Hello, everybody.

Welcome to another episode of the series sellers podcast by Helium 10. I'm your host,

Bradley Sutton, and this is the show that is our Helium 10 weekly buzz, where we give you a rundown

of all the new stories and goings on in the Walmart, Amazon, and e-commerce world. We also give you

training tips of the week and let you know what new features that Helium 10 has that will give

you serious strategies for serious sellers of any level in the e-commerce world. Let's see what's buzzing.

We've got a lot of articles today. I keep saying this, guys, it's so weird how things just come and go.

Like, I remember last week there's like three articles that was worth

reporting on. This week, we've got about eight, nine. So let's go ahead and hop right into it.

The first story is from Reuters.com. And it's entitled Target and Walmart Shoppers Seek Home

Goods, Grocery Delivery Online. Now, this article was kind of talking about Walmart and Target, not too much about

Amazon. But what is interesting here is that it's saying, hey, U.S. online spending, experiencing a

rebound spurred by high gas prices, convenient delivery options, and a surge in deals following

a brief post-pandemic slump U.S. retailers say.

Now, the key stat here I wanted to bring out where it says here,

e-commerce sales made up 16% of total U.S. retail sales in Q1 this year,

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