Etsy, Inc.

Online grocer Farmstead is the latest e-commerce retailer looking to deliver goods, not carbon, and maybe save a few bucks in the process.

Handmade and vintage goods e-commerce retailer Etsy is making up for carbon emissions caused by its shipments.

When it comes to the winners and losers in online sales, Amazon is in a class by itself. And while some competitors are coming on strong, Jet.com is not among them.

More consumers kicked off their holiday shopping through mobile devices and social media.

Now that online retailers have to pay sales tax, will they be able to afford free shipping as well?

Empire Outlets, the outlet center taking shape on the Staten Island side of the Staten Island Ferry, has turned to Manhattan and Holly Nichols to help promote the center.   Nichols’s illustrations have guided campaigns for Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman-Marcus, not to mention New York and Boston Fashion Weeks. Her work has 600,000 followers on Instagram, and originals sell to collectors on Etsy.  

Amazon is making its debut in the bridal category —a move that will take another hit against its crafting competitor Etsy.   

There’s been a couple of change in the C-suite of hand-made goods marketplace Etsy.   The company said chairman and CEO Chad Dickerson is stepping down, to be succeeded as CEO by board member Josh Silverman, effective May 3. Fred Wilson, who has served as lead independent director of the Etsy board, since October 2014, will succeed Dickerson as chairman.