As many big players ramp up their loyalty program efforts, the ACCC has released a draft report highlighting a number of concerns about the programs, in particular the sharing of consumer data without consumer knowledge.

Amazon’s Prime Day sales launch in Australia failed to generate the membership and visitor increase expected to the company’s local online ecommerce offering and did not sufficiently close the expectation gap with consumers.

​Amazon is hoping for record Prime Day sales and sign-ups to Prime memberships in Australia, even after its website crashed at the beginning of the event.