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 “You drove 1,000 miles just for this game?” Christmas 1988 was a stressful time for many American parents. Nintendo’s  Super Mario Bros. 2 was the must-have toy that year. But copies of the hit videogame were as scarce as hen’s teeth. ABC News ran a  20/20 special on the shortage called “Nuts for Nintendo.” They chatted to one dad who drove 1,000 miles from Indiana to NYC in the hopes of grabbing a copy.  “I’ve tried 7 stores a day for 3 weeks and still can’t find it,” he told reporters. They called it a “chip famine.” Why was it so hard to get your ha...

“You drove 1,000 miles just for this game?” Christmas 1988 was a stressful time for many American parents.

“You drove 1,000 miles just for this game?” Christmas 1988 was a stressful time for many American parents.

To put it simply, Amazon is getting instant access to a market it used to operate in. Amazon previously operated a service called Amazon Webstore which was “a complete commerce platform” that enabled “companies to leverage Amazon technology and expertise in building and managing their direct-to-consumer business.” However, the platform shuttered in 2015, just five years after its launch. Amazon was only able to garner several hundred active users at the time — significantly less than its competitors. Selz currently has a user base of more than 125,000. That's not bad but it's miles ...

Amazon has quietly acquired Selz, an Australia-based e-commerce platform that helps businesses to have their own online stores."We have signed an agreement to be acquired by Amazon and are looking forward to working with them as we ...