Zalando Lounge, Zalando’s dedicated shopping club, has started its partnership with the logistics service provider, Fiege e-Com North. They are in charge of the operation of the Zalando Lounge fulfilment center in Olsztynek, Poland. The high employment potential, convenient geographical location and infrastructure are the primary decision criteria to choose Olsztynek as the
Online shopping: Possible price increase for home delivery
Last-mile service providers DPD and Hermes think about increasing prices for parcel home delivery at the front door. The delivery that we know as 'standard delivery' could become a premium service. If you order a package in Germany, you may have to pay more in the long term. DPD and Hermes parcel services always expect a surcharge. They now expect the home delivery industry
Zalando expands beauty category to five new markets
Fashion platform Zalando will offer beauty products in five new markets, Sweden, Denmark, France, Belgium and Italy within the next two months. With this, it encourages shoppers to spend a little extra on accessories. The fashion platform first started selling women’s beauty products a year ago in Germany in a bid to counter a fall in average order size and boost profitability
Annual EU Online Sales up 12%
Eurostat has just released the annual retail figures, and average internet sales in the European Union are up by 12%, reports Tamebay. Estonia is leading with a growth of 36%, whereas Finland’s sales deflated by 1% and Portugal was down by 9%. Online sales or sales by mail order have increased enormously in the past decade, and the annual growth of online sales in the EU has
Online Shoppers in Germany buy more and more in China
Online consumers in Germany buy more and more goods abroad. According to DPD's e-shopper barometer, half of German online shoppers have accessed a foreign webshop to purchase a product cross-border. Overall, the share of online foreign purchases in the German total volume is about 17%. Above all, Germans tend to buy cross-border in Germany. A total of 44% is accrued from