Sign Up You agree to receive occasional updates and special offers for The New York Times's products and services. Mr. O’Leary pointed out that at Amazon’s launch, the Australian marketplace had only a few hundred sellers — or third-party vendors — who are now listing their products on the site. Major Australian retailers, in the meantime, have long since begun preparing for Amazon’s entry into the marketplace. “We’ve been following it very closely,” Tristan Swanwick, the co-founder of Swanwick Sleep, an Australian company that sells sleep-aiding glasses, said of Amazon’s debut in Australia. Advertisement Continue reading the main storySwanwick Sleep was among the first batch of merchants included in Amazon’s Australian offering, easing its efforts to penetrate the Australian market.

Source: New York Times December 05, 2017 03:56 UTC