Author: GeekSeller Editorial Team
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Walmart Introduces New Shipping Score in Listing Quality: Fast Delivery Becomes Even More Important
Walmart is updating the Listing Quality dashboard and introducing a new component of the score called the Shipping score. This new score will soon become part of your overall Listing Quality rating, reflecting how many customers you can offer fast and free delivery to. Walmart is clearly doubling down on fast shipping and making it…
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Walmart Update: Multi-Channel Sellers Can Now Choose Preferred Carriers
Walmart just introduced a very useful update for Multi-Channel Solutions (MCS). Sellers can now select which carriers they want Walmart to use when fulfilling orders from other channels. This gives sellers much more control, especially because many marketplaces — for example TikTok Shop — place limits on what carriers can be used.
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Shopping Research for ChatGPT
OpenAI launched a new feature called Shopping Research. It creates personalized buying guides based on your questions, your preferences, and what ChatGPT already knows about you. It asks a few clarifying questions, pulls info from the internet, and then gives you sorted recommendations, comparisons, and options.
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How Walmart brand owners can access customer demographic data
Walmart provides brand-registered sellers with access to detailed Consumer Insights reports inside Seller Center. This is a useful resource for understanding who is buying your products and how they shop on Walmart.
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TikTok Shop USPS Label Policy Change for 2026 – What Sellers and GeekSeller Users Need to Know
TikTok Shop announced a major update to its U.S. shipping policy. Starting January 2026, all sellers using USPS must buy and print USPS labels directly through TikTok Shipping (4PL). This update aims to stop counterfeit postage and ensure full compliance with U.S. federal law.
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Amazon Bazar: Amazon Expands the Haul Experience to 14 New Countries
Amazon is pushing its low-price shopping model even further. After launching Amazon Haul in late 2024 to compete with Temu and Shein, Amazon rolled it out across the U.S., UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, and Australia. In some regions—Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE—the same idea launched under a different name, Amazon Bazar, to…
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Guide: Walmart’s Enhanced Vetting for Health & Wellness, Pets, Food, Beauty & Personal Care, and Baby Consumables
Walmart has introduced enhanced vetting for sellers listing items in Health & Wellness, Pets, Food, Beauty & Personal Care, and Baby Consumables categories. This update follows recent changes to the Prohibited Products Policy and aims to improve product quality, safety, and buyer trust on Walmart Marketplace. If you sell in any of these categories, Walmart…
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New Walmart Brand Manager: Request and Manage Brand Privileges
Walmart introduced a new Brand Manager tab in Seller Center, allowing trusted sellers to request roles as Authorized Resellers or Acting Brand Owners for specific brands. This update makes it easier to manage brand relationships directly within Seller Center and Brand Portal.
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Walmart Marketplace Adds Multi-Event Black Friday and Cyber Monday Sales for 2025
This year, Walmart is running two Black Friday events and one Cyber Monday, giving sellers multiple chances to boost visibility and sales. The deals start November 14 and continue through Cyber Monday, December 1.
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Walmart Simplified Shipping Settings – what it is and how it works
Walmart introduced Simplified Shipping Settings (SSS) to make it easier for sellers to manage shipping and delivery promises. Instead of setting manual transit times, this feature automatically calculates them based on your fulfillment center location, delivery destination, and carrier choice. Sellers who implement SSS on Walmart Marketplace see approximately a 10% increase in GMV, and…









