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German serial-returners returned 487 million items in 2018
German serial-returners returned 487 million goods last year. This comes from the study of a research team from the University of Bamberg who researched the return behaviour of German consumers...
May 9, 2019
European webshops convert 1.6 billion in the Netherlands
Dutch consumers bought around 1.6 billion euros (excluding VAT) from European webshops last year. This is a 17 % increase in comparison to 2017. In the fourth quarter of 2018,...
May 9, 2019
Apple profit 5% lower than last year
Apple announced financial results for the first quarter of 2019. They have reached an $11.56 billion profit in the first quarter on sales of 58 billion. This profit is within...
May 8, 2019
Coffee is now the leading category in e-commerce grocery sales
In 2018, food and beverage, e-commerce grocery, sales reached 4.75 billion US dollars on Amazon. It is the fastest growing segment for online retailers. According to Edge by Ascential, the...
May 8, 2019
Samsung postpones launch of Galaxy Fold
Samsung has cancelled two media events in China regarding the new foldable ‘Galaxy Fold’. It also postponed the launch in the US after various flaws were discovered by journalists who...
May 7, 2019
The Power of Paper
The way we take care of our environment has been a hot topic all over the world for quite some time. Just think about the discussion on pollution in the oceans...
May 7, 2019
Ability to physically see products increasingly important
When consumers choose to buy a product offline instead of on an online shop, it is mainly because they prefer to see the products they want to purchase in real...
May 7, 2019
Amazon to partially shut down in China during this upcoming summer
Amazon is closing its online marketplace in China for the upcoming summer. As of July 18th, Chinese companies are no longer able to sell items through Amazon.cn. Chinese consumers can...
May 1, 2019
Facebook is hosting cyber criminal marketplaces
Stolen goods are being traded and sold on Facebook’s dozens of cybercriminal marketplaces, according to Cisco Talos, a cyber threat security firm. It is not the first time Facebook has encountered...
May 1, 2019
17% increase for Dutch online retail turnover
The Dutch retail sector is experiencing growth in the first part of 2019. Not only the online retail market, but also the offline retail is growing. Dutch market research company...
April 30, 2019
Online shoppers trust all trustmarks - even fake ones
A trustmark helps to reassure a consumer when it comes to ordering from a web shop. They are an important factor regarding the trustworthiness of an e-commerce shop. However, fake...
April 25, 2019
Italy targets Amazon Italia over abuse of market position
The competition authority in Italy announced that they will start an investigation. It is regarding Amazon Italia’s dominance abuse in the e-commerce logistics industry. The company is now facing a globally...
April 25, 2019
310 million dollar investment in plant-based meat replacements
Over the past couple of weeks, millions of dollars have been dedicated to meat substitutes that are plant-based. Tofurky has accepted its first private investment ever as well. The largest...
April 19, 2019
Apple Music tops Spotify in US paid subscribers
Apple Music has bested Spotify in the amount of paid US subscribers, according to The Wall Street Journal. Apple Music counted an estimated 28 million paid subscriptions in February 2019....
April 18, 2019
H&M to limit free shipping because of sustainability
H&M, a clothing retailer with shops present in over 70 countries globally, decided that free shipping is unsustainable for profitability. In sixteen of the countries that the retailer operates in,...
April 17, 2019
Wing starts with world's first drone delivery service
The delivery of packages using drones starts this week in Australia. Wing, a subsidiary of Alphabet, is going to deliver medicines, coffee and small food orders in the capital city...
April 15, 2019
Walmart fights online retail by adding thousands of in-shop robots
While its employees are receiving more time to help customers, the company is going to add thousands of robots to help with simple jobs. Online retailers such as Amazon put...
April 15, 2019
Amazon comes up with new e-commerce tools and services
For small and mid-sized enterprises that are selling on Amazon’s platform, the company is providing new assistance. Amazon has already released 50 new services and e-commerce tools during 2019 to...
April 12, 2019
Indonesia Fastest Rising E-commerce Country
By reducing entry obstacles and making scalability easy, the sector has enabled business owners to grow online and reach new customers. Over 10% of the 270 million people living in Indonesia...
April 11, 2019
Mobile sales will account for 34% of all US e-commerce sales
Mobile e-commerce retail sales will make up 24% of all US e-commerce sales in 2019. That accounts for an estimated amount of 203.94 billion dollars. Desktop purchases are still dominating...
April 11, 2019
Decathlon launches sharing platform for sports equipment
The French sporting goods retailer Decathlon has launched a new application on which consumers can exchange sports equipment. The company currently owns more than 1500 stores in 49 countries. It...
April 10, 2019
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