New opportunities! Amazon's global business is expanding again!

Many sellers are already doing well on the US site and plan to look at the neighboring Canadian site, only to find that their products are already being sold on the Canadian site. Have they been copied by others?

If you do not open a Canadian site, your products will be copied and sold on the Canadian site. For example, in the picture above, your products are copied and sold by 18 sellers.

Amazon Canada is affiliated with Amazon's North American account. When you open an Amazon North American account, the Canadian account will be opened together with the US account, and you can switch with one click in the background.

The US site is the site with the largest traffic on Amazon globally, while the Canadian site has very little traffic, resulting in fewer sellers and fewer product types. Therefore, when facing severe crackdowns on fake orders and follow-selling by Amazon's US and European sites, many sellers still did not stop their illegal operations, and turned to the less competitive Canadian site, where cross-site follow-selling is very rampant.

It is said that the number of sellers entering Amazon’s Middle East market will double this year!!

As a land of "two oceans, three continents and five seas", the Middle East has rich and unique cultural customs, and many important festivals and religious days. And accompanied by consumers' high enthusiasm for consumption and shopping demand, this is an opportunity for e-commerce sellers to make money that cannot be missed.

For cross-border e-commerce sellers, the Middle East, with an Internet penetration rate of over 74% , Saudi Arabia, with an Internet penetration rate of 88% , and the UAE, with an Internet penetration rate of 95.4% , have a mature e-commerce environment, but it is very easy to get started.

A few days ago, a South African news media reported a Reddit user who said that he accidentally saw a document posted on Amazon South Africa's CarrierCentral website, which showed that Amazon would build two distribution centers in South Africa.

The document shows the details of Amazon's two distribution centers in South Africa. It says that Amazon's two distribution centers will be built in the Eastport Logistics Park near Kempton Park in Johannesburg, and the other will be built in Montague Garden City in Cape Town.

According to the documents, Amazon's distribution centers can handle deliveries of pallets weighing 7 tons, with a maximum pallet height of 160 cm. The two distribution centers can also accept deep-sea import containers.

However, Amazon has so far declined to comment on the scope of its properties, staff appointments and plans in South Africa. But based on these documents, it can be preliminarily determined that good things are coming. Speaking of which, Amazon's road to South Africa has been very "bumpy"~

Amazon has been in South Africa for a long time, having first established operations in Cape Town, South Africa in 2004. In 2017, Amazon expanded to Africa through AWS Direct Connect, and in 2018, AWS launched Amazon CloudFront sites in Johannesburg and Cape Town. It was not until August 2022 that it was said that Amazon was looking for warehouses in South Africa, and in June 2022, there were documents stating that Amazon planned to launch new sites in at least five markets, including South Africa and Nigeria, in 2023.

Originally, there were reports this year that Amazon planned to launch a shopping platform in South Africa in February 2023. The project was code-named "Project Fela" and planned to launch the "Fulfillment by Amazon" service for the third country. However, in January, the South African project was suddenly announced to be delayed.

This was mainly due to the overall economic downturn and slowing e-commerce sales. During that period (including now), we were seeking to reduce costs and increase efficiency, and we also laid off tens of thousands of employees. It is not difficult to guess that the delay of the South African project should be related to this.

With a population of more than 50 million, South Africa is Africa's largest economy and a gateway to 250 million consumers south of the Sahara.

South Africa has also stepped half into the ranks of developed countries and is the most prosperous country in Africa. The consumption level here is higher than that in Southeast Asia, and the acceptance of overseas products, especially Chinese imports, is also quite high. The only drawback is that the Internet penetration rate is still relatively low.

However, Amazon’s influence in South Africa cannot be underestimated. Although it has no local website, Amazon is already the third largest online website in South Africa. This means that although Amazon has not set up a site in South Africa, many South Africans have already crossed the border and the ocean to visit the US site.

As of 2021, South Africa has more than 40 million Internet users, with an Internet penetration rate of 68.2%. 45% of people go online for more than 4 hours a day, mainly through mobile phones. There are 24.3 million e-commerce users, with an e-commerce penetration rate of 41.1% and e-commerce revenue of US$6.69 billion. This is a medium level with good customer orders. Sellers in the mid-range market can consider South Africa.