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FBA removals/disposal: billing now happens per unit (Feb 15).

This is not a fee hike — it’s a cashflow + operations change. If you run bulk cleanup orders, your accounting and margin tracking can get messy fast.

Read: the per-unit billing change breakdown.

👉PPC LAND →

SAFE-T claims: 60 →30 days (Feb 16).

This is a process war. The brands that win will be the ones with a weekly returns triage rhythm and evidence captured early.

Read: the updated SAFE-T window announcement.

👉Amazon Seller Central →

FBM returns: prepaid labels required for everyone (Feb 8).

High-value exemption is gone. Expect a different loss profile on expensive SKUs unless you tighten packaging, serial tracking, and returns QA.

Read: the updated prepaid label policy + what it changes.

👉Amazon Seller Central →

Listing removals: “branded listings” notices (Feb 10).

Whether this is a misidentification issue or gating/compliance, the takeaway is the same: run a weekly listing risk scan.

Read: the removal notice + dispute path.

👉Amazon Seller Central →

AI is becoming the new “rank”: what smart Amazon brands are doing now.

You’re about to compete in two marketplaces at once:

• the Amazon marketplace
• the AI discovery layer that decides what products get recommended before shoppers even browse

We’re watching “agentic shopping” go mainstream (NRF recaps + retail coverage). (Financial Times)

The 3 moves to make this month

1. Make your catalog machine-readable
   Clean titles, consistent variation logic, correct attributes. (AI systems punish messy truth.)
2. Turn reviews into a creative engine
   If ad tooling is increasingly AI-assisted, your moat is shipping new angles weekly. (There’s already heavy chatter around AI-assisted creative generation workflows.) (LinkedIn)
3. Adopt “AI monitoring” before “AI autopilot”
   Start with anomaly detection (ACoS spikes, CVR drops, placement drift), then automate.
   Skim: seller AI tooling roundups for the current baseline. (SellerApp)
   

The 30-minute action plan (do this today)

• 10 min: Create a weekly “Returns + SAFE-T” checklist (owner, cadence, evidence template). (Amazon Seller Central)

• 10 min: Update your “removals/disposal” SOP + accounting notes for per-unit billing. (PPC Land)

• 10 min: Pick 1 AI workflow to implement (my suggestion: PPC anomaly alerts first). (SellerApp)

Weekly Trending Topics.

• Per-unit billing for removals/disposal (Feb 15) (PPC Land)
• SAFE-T window cut to 30 days (Feb 16) (Amazon Seller Central)
• Prepaid return labels mandatory (Feb 8) (Amazon Seller Central)
• “Branded listings” removals + dispute workflow (Feb 10) (Amazon Seller Central)
• AI tooling baseline for sellers (what’s being adopted) (SellerApp)
• Retail shift: AI shopping bots changing discovery (Financial Times)
• NRF agentic commerce takeaways (why product data becomes ranking) (Visionet.com)

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