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SEATTLE — Amazon.com is launching a new marketplace designed to let businesses shop for supplies online.
Amazon.com is launching a new marketplace designed to let businesses shop for supplies online.
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Amazon Business will allow suppliers to sell a wide range of merchandise (everything from office supplies and tools to laboratory equipment) on a dedicated online platform. Amazon says the approach will let sellers take advantage of its e-commerce expertise and fulfillment capabilities, as well as such features as the ability to offer business pricing and quantity discounts.
Amazon says millions of business customers have spent billions of dollars on its regular Amazon.com site in the past year, according to a report by The Washington Post, and Amazon Business is meant to build on that.
"We’ve heard from business customers that they love the convenience of shopping online, and want an experience at work that is similar to how they shop at home," Prentis Wilson, vice president of Amazon Business, told the newspaper.
