On January 1, 2026, Amazon will officially end all prep and item labeling services for FBA shipments in the U.S. This includes any inventory sent directly into FBA or funneled through Amazon services like AWD (Amazon Warehousing and Distribution), AGL (Amazon Global Logistics), SEND, and Supply Chain Portal if it ultimately lands in FBA. Amazon’s...

By Rachel Andrea Go on July 29, 2025

It’s no secret that Amazon is an eCommerce giant, shipping to over 100 countries and regions. With millions of products and a fast-moving ecosystem, it’s a powerful platform for growing your business. But to keep things running smoothly, Amazon constantly updates its policies and regulations. For sellers, that means one thing: keep up, or risk...

By Tom Wicky on July 22, 2025

CORAL SPRINGS, FLA. (July 15, 2025) – MyFBAPrep, the leading global eCommerce warehouse network, has been selected by Amazon as a Recommended Prep Service Provider for Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA), following Amazon’s most extensive national vetting process to date. The rigorous evaluation spanned hundreds of performance, compliance, and scalability data points aimed at identifying logistics...

By Courtney Dennis on July 15, 2025

Amazon has just dropped a bombshell in the eCommerce world: Custom Analytics, a full-fledged business intelligence dashboard inside Seller Central. For years, sellers have begged for deeper, customizable reporting without having to export CSVs into Excel or wrangle 3rd-party BI tools. Now, Amazon is delivering. What is Amazon Custom Analytics? Think of Custom Analytics like...

By Tom Wicky on July 10, 2025

Amazon just changed the game again. You have to love them for being such unpredictably predictable game-changers. For the first time, Prime Day will stretch into a four-day event (starting today! July 8-11), which happens to be the longest in its history. On the surface, it’s another chance for shoppers to load up on deals....

By Tom Wicky on July 08, 2025

Launching a consumer product brand is an exciting journey—but scaling production can quickly become one of your biggest hurdles. For early-stage brands, the cost of building a manufacturing facility, buying equipment, and hiring staff is often out of reach. That’s where co-packing services for startups come in. A good co-packer (short for “contract packager”) allows...

By Tom Wicky on July 03, 2025

As brands grow from concept to shelf, one of the most important decisions they face is how to produce their product at scale. Two common options are co-packing and contract manufacturing—terms that are often used interchangeably, but actually represent different types of partnerships. Understanding the distinction between co-packing vs contract manufacturing is essential for choosing...

By Tom Wicky on July 01, 2025

In the competitive world of beverage production, getting your product from concept to customer requires more than just a great idea and a killer recipe. One of the most critical steps in scaling your beverage brand is partnering with the right co-packer. A beverage co-packer (contract packager) helps brands produce, bottle, can, label, and prepare...

By Tom Wicky on June 26, 2025

This is a guest post from Nishka Sinha, Co-founder & CMO of Dresma, a Silicon Valley-based start-up. Dresma offers an all-in-one AI-powered platform Dresma and the DoMyShoot mobile app, a self-use solution for online sellers to custom generate professional eCommerce images instantly at unprecedented scale & low cost. In today’s hyper-competitive digital marketplace, brands are in...

By Guest on June 24, 2025

Every brand dreams of owning the customer journey from click to doorstep—but at scale, that dream can become a logistical nightmare. Fulfillment isn’t just a backend function anymore—it’s where customer experience, brand trust, and margin converge. When you’re scaling from thousands to tens of thousands of orders, your fulfillment stack either becomes your flywheel or...

By Tom Wicky on June 19, 2025

I’ve seen packaging make or break brands. Not just the aesthetics, but also the boring stuff like logistics. In this world, packaging is more than a box. It’s infrastructure. When I started working with fast-growing brands, I quickly learned that packaging touches everything: your unit economics, fulfillment throughput, conversion rates, and even how buyers judge...

By Tom Wicky on June 17, 2025

For direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands, your fulfillment partner is your final handshake with the customer. Whether you’re shipping skincare, supplements, apparel, or home goods, delays, inaccuracies, or poor packaging destroy LTV and kill CAC efficiency. Choosing the right DTC fulfillment center isn’t just an ops decision — it’s a growth decision. Here’s how to vet partners,...

By Tom Wicky on June 12, 2025