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• 2020 Holiday Sales Wrap-up - Challenged by a pandemic and an unstable economy, online and brick-and-mortar retailers scrambled to salvage the 2020 holiday shopping season. Most merchants started offering discounts much earlier than in previous years to accommodate the changed shopping dynamics. This is my third consecutive holiday sales wrap-up, following installments in 2018 and 2019.
  Topics: retailers, billion, online, revenue, sales, season, wrapup, increase, holiday, saw.
• 21 Mind-Blowing Black Friday Statistics for 2020 [New Data] - Ah, Black Friday — the biggest shopping weekend of the year is around the corner. 
  Topics: online, mindblowing, retailers, shoppers, million, data, holiday, season, source, black, shopping, statistics.
• 4 views on the future of retail and the shopping experience - While the present is largely bleak, preparing for the future has retailers adopting technologies faster than ever. Their resilience and innovation means retail will look and fee different when the world reopens.
  Topics: future, mascarenhas, views, shopping, ways, experience, techcrunch, need, thinks, retail, retailers, adopting, look.
• 5 B2B Ecommerce Trends for 2021 - B2B ecommerce was already growing rapidly when the global pandemic struck in early 2020, accelerating the wholesale industry's digital transformation. And while it would be possible to list many industry shifts for the coming year, five trends could be especially disruptive.
  Topics: including, integration, products, trends, drop, retailers, shipping, payment, integrations, b2b, ecommerce.
• 5 Predictions for the 2020 Holiday Shopping Season - Despite strong increases in the past several months, predicting this year's holiday ecommerce sales made me feel a bit like Ebenezer Scrooge. I wanted to be optimistic about the Christmas sales, but three of my five predictions are negative overall. The other two, click-and-collect ecommerce and gig-economy delivery, are generally positive.
  Topics: shopping, ecommerce, retail, predictions, sales, christmas, retailers, season, shoppers, delivery, holiday, clickandcollect, online.
• 5 Reasons to Sell Your e-Commerce Goods at a Wholesale Price - Most entrepreneurs make the mistake of underestimating the benefits that a wholesale channel can add to their eCommerce business. Or assume that wholesale pricing is best executed by a brick and mortar wholesale businesses. But any eCommerce business, big or small, can sell to both consumers and retailers at a wholesale price. Unlike selling only […]
  Topics: customers, selling, retail, goods, product, retailers, business, price, ecommerce, reasons, wholesale, sell, customer.
• 5 Retail Insights from a Covid Christmas - Holiday consumer spending offers insights into the retail industry, including ecommerce's continued growth, consumer spending, and customer relationships. 2020 has been extraordinary — the pandemic, natural disasters, and a divisive U.S. election. What follows are five insights from the 2020 Christmas season.
  Topics: online, sales, ecommerce, covid, spending, retailers, insights, pandemic, retail, money, christmas, shoppers.
• 5 Ways to Boost January 2021 Retail Sales - For many retailers, January sales feel like a slump after the high-flying holiday season. But stores can still take steps to earn relatively more. Here are five tactics to try.
  Topics: boost, pay, retailers, marketing, retail, sales, customers, offer, items, holiday, email, live, ways.
• 65% of online retailers in Europe needed extra finance - Two thirds of online merchants in Europe have needed extra finance in the past two years. Loans carried out after the outbreak of the corona virus aren’t included in this statistic. Online merchants need a loan the most for buying equipment. Some people think ecommerce companies are generating huge amounts… Continue reading
  Topics: needed, months, finance, online, merchants, need, cover, extra, retailers, wait, europe.
• 71% of German shoppers want to choose logistics company - More than two thirds of online shoppers in Germany would like to choose which logistics company sends their online order. The most important reason for this is because it enables them to influence the delivery reliability. Another important reason for being able to choose the logistics company handling the delivery,… Continue reading
  Topics: delivery, dont, online, order, germany, important, choose, shoppers, german, retailers, logistics, company.
• AfterShip makes its automated shipping API, Postmen, available for free - AfterShip, the e-commerce shipment tracking platform, announced today that Postmen, its shipping API, is now available for free, with no limits on shipment volume. Co-founder Andrew Chan told TechCrunch that the company decided to make the Postmen API, previously offered as a SaaS subscription for enterprises, free in response to the massive jump in online […]
  Topics: users, available, techcrunch, chan, postmen, pandemic, makes, postal, automated, shipment, aftership, api, ecommerce, retailers, free, shipping, days.
• Amazon Shipping launches in the UK - Amazon has introduced Amazon Shipping in the United Kingdom. It’s the first market outside the US where Amazon offers its premium shipping service for ecommerce retailers. Amazon Shipping picks up parcels and delivers them to the end customer. Online retailers in the United Kingdom can now request information about the… Continue reading
  Topics: amazon, uk, picks, kingdom, launches, parcels, united, service, orders, website, shipping, retailers.
• BGF leads $11M round in on-demand merchandise platform Moteefe - Moteefe, the e-commerce platform for on-demand production of merchandise, has raised $11 million in what, according to filings, appears to be part one of a Series B. Leading the round is BGF, with participation from existing investors, including Gresham House Ventures and Force Over Mass Capital. The injection of capital will be used by Moteefe […]
  Topics: platform, 11m, entrepreneurs, sell, bgf, techcrunch, moteefe, leads, customer, round, store, production, supply, products, retailers, merchandise, ondemand.
• Bevh wants retailers to temporarily work on Sundays - The German E-Commerce and Distance Selling Trade Association (Bevh) wants a temporary lifting of the ban on Sunday work in retail and logistics. The association thinks that, especially with regards to the upcoming Christmas shopping period, this is necessary to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Germany is in the… Continue reading
  Topics: temporarily, sundays, work, type, bevh, wants, wave, association, click, thinks, collect, retailers.
• Black Friday online shopping comes in $9B, $3.6B on smartphones - Black Friday — the day that launched 1,000 other shopping holidays — may have lost its place as the “start” of the Christmas shopping season by now (it gets bigger and earlier with each passing year). But the day after Thanksgiving still pulls in a crowd of buyers looking for a bargain and remains a major […]
  Topics: start, smartphones, techcrunch, holiday, adobe, shopping, sales, 9b, 36b, comes, black, retailers, online, spent, billion, day.
• Bloomreach CEO: Future of Retail Is Marketplaces, Brands - Raj De Datta, CEO and co-founder at Bloomreach, said it succinctly, "The future of retail is marketplaces which require scale. But, the future of retail is also brands. The industry is seeing an explosion of small brands setting up shop online."
  Topics: future, small, retail, sales, retailers, ceo, marketplace, bloomreach, sell, brands, datta, ecommerce, marketplaces.
• Brits sitting on €2.7 billion of unreturned goods bought online - Online shoppers in the United Kingdom are sitting on 2.4 billion pounds (2.74 billion euros) of unreturned goods they have purchased through the internet. Returning these items has become harder with the lockdown restrictions in place. According to over half (57 percent) of online shoppers in the United Kingdom, returning… Continue reading
  Topics: unreturned, returns, euros, goods, retailers, returning, restrictions, bought, sitting, brits, billion, shoppers, items, lockdown, online.
• COVID-19 pandemic accelerated shift to e-commerce by 5 years, new report says - As the COVID-19 pandemic reshapes our world, more consumers have begun shopping online in greater numbers and frequency. According to new data from IBM’s U.S. Retail Index, the pandemic has accelerated the shift away from physical stores to digital shopping by roughly five years. Department stores, as a result, are seeing significant declines. In the […]
  Topics: shift, retailers, report, department, accelerated, online, techcrunch, ecommerce, quarter, covid19, stores, sales, pandemic.
• Cadeera is doing AI visual search for home décor - In recent years we’ve seen a whole bunch of visual/style fashion-focused search engines cropping up, tailored to helping people find the perfect threads to buy online by applying computer vision and other AI technologies to perform smarter-than-keywords visual search which can easily match and surface specific shapes and styles. Startups like Donde Search, Glisten and […]
  Topics: visual, spiegler, retailers, facebook, ai, youre, décor, techcrunch, ecommerce, doing, cadeera, search, recommendations.
• Can E-Commerce Save Retail? - Get physical, social, and digital. It's time to integrate.
  Topics: digital, shopping, stores, customers, social, pandemic, physical, retail, ecommerce, save, online, retailers.
• Canalys: Google is top cloud infrastructure provider for online retailers - While Google Cloud Platform has shown some momentum in the last year, it remains a distant third behind Amazon and Microsoft in the cloud infrastructure market. But Google got some good news from Canalys today when the firm reported that GCP is the No. 1 cloud platform provider for retailers. Canalys didn’t provide specific numbers, […]
  Topics: techcrunch, help, technological, retailers, canalys, amazon, cloud, infrastructure, big, provider, retail, google, market, online.
• CapitaLand launches new e-commerce platforms in Singapore - CapitaLand has launched new e-commerce and food ordering platforms in Singapore, dubbed eCapitaMall and Capita3Eats.
  Topics: ecommerce, launches, singapores, using, reach, capitaland, app, ordering, retailers, food, singapore, platforms.
• Carrefour France supports local producers - Carrefour has launched a new initiative in France that is aimed at supporting small and local producers. At the same time, it’s answering to a growing demand among shoppers for goods produced nearby. The new initiative is part of Carrefour’s ‘Zero kilometer’ commitment. The French hypermarket chain will from local… Continue reading
  Topics: products, support, small, stores, signed, retailers, supports, france, local, carrefour, producers.
• Cdiscount launches marketplace solution for other retailers - Cdiscount has announced it will launch an online marketplace solution that can be used by other retailers. The complete solution, which takes care of technology, offer, and logistics, enables physical and online retailers to develop their own marketplace operations. Cdiscount moving deeper into the popular marketplace market is no surprise.… Continue reading
  Topics: online, retailers, marketplace, cdiscount, million, growth, french, launches, logistics, solution, ecommerce.
• Charting a New Path Forward: How to Plan Your Ecommerce Investments for the Future - It’s not often that widespread change happens overnight, but that’s how it felt for much of the U.S. in mid-March…
  Topics: ecommerce, investments, advertising, investment, website, future, marketing, impact, retailers, experience, plan, forward.
• Covid-19 Accelerates Retail’s Digital Transformation - Retail's digital transformation, which is the concept of using new digital technology to address business performance, has been ongoing for decades. Covid-19 has forced retailers to invest more money into new technologies and implement those technologies much more quickly than otherwise planned.
  Topics: retails, twilio, digital, businesses, covid19, pandemic, retail, customers, ecommerce, retailers, transformation, accelerates.
• Covid-19 will speed up the reshaping of global retail trends, says KPMG - Covid-19 has accelerated key underlying global retail trends that were already reshaping the industry according to a new report by KPMG.
  Topics: covid19, retailers, speed, customer, report, global, shopping, reshaping, retail, online, kpmg, trends, need, business.
• Delivery platform Seven Senders raises 33 million euros - Seven Senders, a German delivery platform for parcel shipping, has concluded a Series C financing round of 40 million dollars (33 million euros). The company wants to use the money to further support Chinese and US online retailers with their business activities in Europe. Just like in the previous financing… Continue reading
  Topics: strategy, raises, euros, online, retailers, platform, wants, shipping, senders, seven, company, million, delivery.
• Despite pandemic, Amazon Prime Day expected to generate nearly $10B in global sales - A new forecast released today estimates Amazon’s delayed Prime Day sales event will top last year’s by bringing in an estimated nearly $10 billion in worldwide sales when it runs later this month. According to eMarketer, which released its first-ever Prime Day forecast, consumers will continue to spend heavily on e-commerce and seek out deals […]
  Topics: global, event, emarketer, amazon, days, retailers, despite, nearly, ecommerce, sales, billion, generate, day, expected, prime, pandemic.
• Digitalisation key to helping Asian retailers emerge from Covid-19 - Retail business leaders in Southeast Asia see digitalisation as the driving tool in returning to growth in the post-Covid-19 era according to a study by Ernst & Young.
  Topics: surveyed, strategy, cent, retailers, business, online, shift, helping, covid19, key, driving, retail, survey, asian, emerge, digitalisation.
• Dutch B2B marketplace Orderchamp expands to France - Dutch wholesale marketplace Orderchamp has opened its digital doors in France. From now on, French physical retailers and online store owners can register for free to buy products, while French brands can start selling their assortment to over 12,000 connected retailers in Europe. It’s no coincidence Orderchamp has launched in… Continue reading
  Topics: physical, products, b2b, online, orderchamp, marketplace, dutch, wholesale, brands, retailers, french, expands, france.
• Dutch TrustProfile runs pilot across Europe - TrustProfile is the new service from Dutch trust mark WebwinkelKeur. With this label, online retailers can show several pieces of information, like reviews and verified identification data, to enable trust among customers. Currently, a pilot project is running in France, Spain and Italy. TrustProfile is now being tested by about… Continue reading
  Topics: label, online, dutch, runs, retailers, reviews, customers, information, customer, spain, trustprofile, europe, pilot, trust.
• Ecommerce Product Releases: February 1, 2021 - Here is a list of product releases and updates for late January from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on user experience tools, monetizing newsletters, promotional incentives, fulfillment, and hiring a developer.
  Topics: digital, content, amazon, ecommerce, releases, platform, product, instagram, publishing, items, fulfillment, experience, retailers.
• Ecommerce shipping in Germany 2020 - Online retailers in Germany should better inform their customers about the status of their orders. One in four ecommerce companies only sends a single email after checkout, a study about Ecommerce shipping in Germany shows. This is one of the conclusions after the shipping services of 100 of the largest… Continue reading
  Topics: germany, retailers, status, delivery, customers, shipping, ecommerce, online, order, shows.
• Ecommerce shipping in Germany 2021 - Online shops in Germany have done a solid job in terms of shipping online orders to customers. Last year, was a difficult year, because of the sudden peak in ecommerce, but most things went well, a new study shows. Every year for the last three years, ParcelLab places test orders… Continue reading
  Topics: shipping, ecommerce, logistics, companies, parcellab, customers, study, germany, retailers, online, delivery.
• Envolve Tech expands to US - Envolve Tech, a retail tech company from Wales, has entered the US market. The Newport-based company has launched an office in New York. The expansion follows after raising over 800,000 euros last year. The Welsh startup has appointed Marc Blumberg to head up its office in New York. The opening… Continue reading
  Topics: envolve, product, tech, online, york, retailers, american, smith, techs, market, expands.
• Facebook Shops to let retailers sell directly to consumers - New platform to allow businesses to sell across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
  Topics: zealand, let, consumers, able, sell, online, retailers, marketplace, shops, products, businesses, business, social, facebook, directly.
• For Omnichannel Retailers, Hedgehogs Beat Foxes - In his 2001 book "Good to Great," author and researcher Jim Collins sought to explain "why some companies make the leap [from good to great] and others don't." His answer plays out over about 300 pages, and it includes the Hedgehog Concept.
  Topics: retailers, company, business, beat, companies, fox, good, omnichannel, foxes, hedgehogs, collins, world, hedgehog, concept, great.
• Fulfilment solution Bigblue raises €3 million - Bigblue, a logistics provider from France, has raised 3.6 million dollars (3 million euros) in a seed round. The startup wants to build an end-to-end fulfilment solution in Europe. Bigblue isn’t a fulfilment company itself, but it works with several ones to handle post-order processes for online stores. The company… Continue reading
  Topics: stock, bigblue, wants, round, retailers, store, million, fulfilment, logistics, online, solution, raises.
• Grab Malaysia sees ‘instant retail’ reducing need for physical stores - Grab Malaysia is expanding its Instant Retail service after studying customer demand for goods during the nation’s Covid-19 crisis.
  Topics: consumers, reducing, stores, malaysia, physical, retail, grabmart, instant, businesses, need, retailers, sees, believes, grab, goods.
• Half of retailers experience location-based supply constraints - For certain fast-moving consumer goods categories, half of retailers and wholesalers in the European Union experience supply constraints that are based on their location. These restrictions could limit traders to source goods in, and to resell goods to, other EU countries. Last month, the European Commission published a study that… Continue reading
  Topics: european, purchase, prices, supply, constraints, locationbased, retailers, eu, half, source, experience, goods.
• Holiday Selling without the Crowds - Pandemic-induced social distancing, reduced hours of operation, and even continued lockdowns and closures could dramatically change Christmas shopping behaviors in 2020, requiring retailers to find new ways to serve holiday shoppers and generate sales.
  Topics: online, holiday, crowds, ecommerce, selling, think, black, stores, retailers, shopping, going.
• How Retail Companies Are Adapting to Improve Profitability ⁠⁠ - While many continue to struggle, impressively, a select few are still seeing improved revenues.
  Topics: retail, adapting, customers, sales, store, stores, way, clothing, retailers, product, digital, profitability, improve, ecommerce, companies.
• How to Maximize Profits over Black Friday – Cyber Monday - How to maximize profits on Black Friday and Cyber Monday
  Topics: black, send, customer, profits, audiences, customers, purchase, marketing, maximize, bfcm, retailers, holiday, strategies.
• Imran Khan’s Verishop adds Verified Shops, a way for emerging brands to set up shop in its digital mall - Verishop, the Los Angeles online retailer founded by former Snap executive Imran Khan, launched a little over a year ago to change the way people shop online. Now the company is launching a new initiative called “Verified Shops” which looks to change the way that up-and-coming retail brands can sell their wares.  As direct-to-consumer and […]
  Topics: verishop, way, shops, khan, khans, brands, retailers, verified, sell, techcrunch, set, imran, shop, online, brand, mall.
• In the ‘buy now, pay later’ wars, PayPal is primed for dominance - Stephen Milbank Contributor Share on Twitter Stephen Milbank is the co-founder and Head of Global Strategic Partnerships at Button, a mobile commerce technology company that is powering a commerce-driven internet. The COVID-19 pandemic has already dramatically reshaped how Americans shop, with e-commerce expected to grow 20% in 2020 as a greater proportion of users shift […]
  Topics: retailer, program, paypal, dominance, buy, primed, payment, klarna, bnpl, techcrunch, pay, later, quadpay, programs, retailers, affirm, afterpay, wars.
• InPost launches label-free returns service - Parcel locker provider InPost has launched a returns solution that wants to simplify the process of returning items that were bought online. Customers no longer need to use or print labels, instead they use a QR code on their smartphone. The new returns solution wants to make ecommerce returns easier… Continue reading
  Topics: printed, inpost, qr, retailers, online, easier, launches, labelfree, returns, shoppers, labels, service, process.
• Increased fraud in online fashion - The growing ecommerce has led to a rise in most types of fraud, online fashion retailers claim. One in three have experienced more online payment fraud, while 44 percent have experiences a rise in account takeover and promotion abuse. The coronavirus outbreak has led to a boost in ecommerce. But… Continue reading
  Topics: fashion, online, ravelin, led, fraud, saw, retailers, increased, ecommerce, increase, rise.
• India’s online grocers will thrive post-Covid-19, says analyst - India’s online grocers face a bright future following the Covid-19 lockdown, according to analysis by industry research firm GlobalData.
  Topics: postcovid19, thrive, staff, analyst, million, rapid, online, delivery, indias, grocers, lockdown, retailers, saw, territory, operational.
• Instacart, in partnership with ALDI, will support SNAP EBT for online groceries - Instacart is making its grocery delivery and pickup services more accessible to lower-income customers by offering customers the ability to pay for groceries using their SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits. This is the first time Instacart shoppers have been able to use government assistance programs when paying for groceries, and follows earlier moves by […]
  Topics: program, ebt, aldi, grocery, snap, food, customers, using, techcrunch, groceries, partnership, instacart, support, online, retailers.
• Introducing Resilient Retail: A New Virtual Event Series from Shopify POS - It’s been a year. We’ve all been hit by one crisis after another, and it’s fair to feel pretty burnt out. We need inspiration. We need stories. We need something to help us hold it together in the middle of these interlocking crises. Enter: Resilient Retail. Shopify’s brand new virtual event series is all about connecting retail industry experts and operators to share the tips, tactics, and cutting-edge knowledge they’re using to weather the current storm.More
  Topics: prince, need, shopify, whats, retailers, hit, operator, series, virtual, resilient, pos, event, introducing, sharma, retail, youre.
• Jet co-founder Nate Faust is building a more sustainable e-commerce experience with Olive - Nate Faust has spent years in the e-commerce business — he was a vice president at Quidsi (which ran Diapers.com and Soap.com), co-founder and COO at Jet (acquired by Walmart for $3.3 billion) and then a senior vice president at Walmart. Over time, he said it slowly dawned on him that it’s “crazy” that 25 […]
  Topics: retailers, impact, ecommerce, delivery, jet, techcrunch, experience, environmental, shoppers, products, sustainable, packaging, weekly, building, faust, olive, cofounder, nate.
• Lengow acquired by Marlin - Ecommerce automation platform Lengow has been acquired by Marlin Equity Partners. The global investment fund says it has big plans with Lengow. It wants to make the French company the leading ecommerce platform on the market. Marlin Equity Partners has acquired a majority stake in Lengow, which has offices in… Continue reading
  Topics: acquired, partners, retailers, online, lengow, ecommerce, growth, marlin, equity, platform.
• Lightspeed Payments launched in Europe - Lightspeed has announced the launch of Lightspeed Payments in Europe. At first, this payment solution will only available for hospitality merchants in the United Kingdom. Soon it will be available for retailers. Other European markets will also follow soon. With Lightspeed Payments, small and medium-sized businesses in the hospitality industry… Continue reading
  Topics: software, retailers, united, launched, kingdom, lightspeed, hospitality, businesses, europe, payments, available.
• Likes and followers set to be more valuable post Covid-19 - As consumers around the world spend more time on social media in the Covid-19 era, likes and followers on social media are likely to become increasingly valuable to retailers.
  Topics: post, social, valuable, likes, media, marketing, retailers, shoppers, posts, firm, set, salter, covid19, loyalty, followers.
• Major Brands Bet on DTC Ecommerce - Selling directly to consumers online is no longer just for start-ups. As brick-and-mortar sales decline because of Covid-19 and store closures, established brands are focusing on digital sales. Even before the pandemic, the traditional model of manufacturers selling to wholesalers who then sold to retailers was faltering.
  Topics: products, stores, selling, dtc, consumers, directly, bet, online, ecommerce, retailers, major, sites, brands.
• Malaysia’s Sunway Pyramid launches online platform for Hari Raya - Malaysia’s Sunway Pyramid mall has launched an online platform to help customers purchase safely during Hari Raya celebrations this year.
  Topics: platform, mall, shoppers, launches, raya, sunway, hari, online, retailers, help, malaysias, pyramid, tan.
• Mall vacancy rates in the Philippines set to rise - Mall vacancy rates in the Philippines will rise to 12 per cent this year, predicts real estate consultancy company Colliers.
  Topics: philippines, cent, rise, retailers, covid19, online, pandemic, payments, vacancy, set, rates, mall.
• May 2020 Top 10: Our Most Popular Posts - Our mission since 2005 is to publish content to help ecommerce merchants. What follows are the 10 most popular articles that we published in May 2020. Articles from early in the month are more likely to make the list than later ones.
  Topics: popular, read, ecommerce, google, posts, merchants, list, content, sellers, shopping, retailers.
• Mondi introduces thermo-insulated packaging - UK packaging company Mondi has introduced its latest ecommerce product. It’s called BCoolBox and it’s a recyclable packaging solution that keeps perishable food cool while in transit. It uses thermo-insulation to keep items chilled below 7 degrees Celsius for up to 24 hours. Keeping the food chilled happens without using… Continue reading
  Topics: stays, packaging, store, solution, thermoinsulated, mondi, product, retailers, bcoolbox, introduces, chilled, online, food.
• OTT Ads Are an Opportunity for Established Retailers - Streaming commercials — which are called over-the-top (OTT) ads because most cable and streaming boxes used to sit on top of televisions — can provide a level of audience targeting that is similar to search engine marketing, social media advertising, and affiliate marketing.
  Topics: media, advertising, opportunity, ads, ott, marketing, math, retailers, data, established, targeting, performance.
• Online marketplaces in UK increase in popularity - Online shoppers in the United Kingdom are four times more likely to order from online marketplaces than direct from retailers. Over half of the 69 percent of shoppers who regularly buy online, do so via online marketplaces. Online marketplaces in Europe are getting more and more popular, and that’s also… Continue reading
  Topics: marketplaces, popularity, online, shoppers, scale, uk, quickly, retailers, united, product, consumers, increase.
• Online-only players most popular among UK fashion shoppers - Ecommerce is, of course, very popular now the physical stores are closed in many countries across Europe. But online-only retailers seem to really reap the rewards of having a strong digital infrastructure. In the UK, online-only retailers are now the number-one purchasing channel for fashion shoppers. This means that online-only… Continue reading
  Topics: shoppers, popular, online, amazon, shopping, fashion, retailers, onlineonly, stores, players, uk, think.
• Orderchamp expands to Germany - Dutch wholesale marketplace Orderchamp has announced its expansion to Germany. It’s the fifth market where the B2B platform officially has a presence. It’s also active in the Benelux and France. After a soft-launch, Orderchamp will now open an office in Germany to further penetrate this market. Orderchamp, which expanded to… Continue reading
  Topics: brands, team, orderchamp, platform, wholesale, expands, products, presence, retailers, german, germany.
• Overlooked Ways for Local Businesses to Boost Sales During the Crisis - A mix of new- and old-school techniques, from stuffing flyers to creative delivery options, can help local businesses survive and thrive.
  Topics: retail, boost, ways, customers, businesses, crisis, local, retailers, overlooked, sales, shops, requires, online, stores, support.
• PayPal launches Checkout with Crypto - PayPal today announced the launch of Checkout with Crypto. With this feature, PayPal customers can pay with crypto coins alongside other payment methods in their PayPal wallet. Checkout with Crypto is available at millions of global online retailers and other businesses. Checkout with Crypto starts rolling out to PayPal customers… Continue reading
  Topics: pay, cryptocurrency, customers, digital, wallet, retailers, checkout, launches, paypal, feature, crypto.
• Platform Group expands to France - The Platform Group, which has been selling fashion and shoes online in Germany for years through its brands Schuhe24 and Outfits24, is expanding to France. It launched shopping portal EnVogue, which is aimed at online fashion shoppers from France. The company launched EnVogue.fr just before Christmas. “Our goal was to… Continue reading
  Topics: france, outfits24, expands, retailers, online, group, platform, went, germany, schuhe24, dealers.
• PricingHub raises 2 million euros - PricingHub, a French pricing solution provider, has raised 2 million euros. With the money, it wants to further develop its price optimization platform. PricingHub already raised 1.8 million euros from French venture capital firm Elaia, business accelerator Lafayette Plug and Play and business angels last February. A recent refundable advance… Continue reading
  Topics: pricing, pricinghub, retailers, sensitivity, million, euros, price, raises, french, worsened, solution, stock.
• Print-on-demand platform Moteefe raises €9.3 million - Moteefe, a Dutch platform for on-demand production of merchandise, has successfully completed an 11 million dollar (9.3 million euros) funding round. It was led by new investor BGF, with participation from existing investors. The round follows a Series A fundraise announced earlier this year. Last February, Moteefe announced it raised… Continue reading
  Topics: platform, growth, euros, printondemand, sizes, million, raises, moteefe, users, round, production, retailers.
• Psykhe secures seed funding to match consumer personalities to fashion products - In an overcrowded market of online fashion brands, consumers are spoilt for choice on what site to visit. They are generally forced to visit each brand one by one, manually filtering down to what they like. Most of the experience is not that great, and past purchase history and cookies aren’t much to go on […]
  Topics: match, trait, ecommerce, personality, seed, users, techcrunch, funding, startup, based, fashion, products, platform, secures, personalities, consumer, psykhe, retailers.
• Research shows shoppers still buying apparel despite Covid-19 - Consumers are still buying apparel despite the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, according to new data released by international research firm GlobalData.
  Topics: pandemic, shows, buying, lockdown, apparel, despite, research, impact, clothing, younger, social, uplift, shoppers, covid19, retailers, outbreak.
• Retail Returns Can Be Hazardous and Subject to Fines - Booming retail sales in November and December can lead to tons of returns and exchanges in January. Some of those returned items can be hazardous and require special handling and disposal. The return of hazardous materials poses several problems for retailers, including identification, reverse logistics, and disposal.
  Topics: fines, retailers, logistics, materials, ross, product, california, returns, subject, retail, material, bays, hazardous.
• Rushing Into Ecommerce Can Lead to Costly Mistakes. Here's What You Need to Know. - The few still new...to what's become an all-encompassing way to retail...must tread lightly.
  Topics: stores, heres, great, know, tasks, shopify, rushing, need, data, mistakes, ecommerce, retailers, digital, worth, lead, online, pandemic, costly.
• Samsung and Facebook help Indian SMEs go live online - Samsung and Facebook have partnered up in India to train retailers to expand into e-commerce via social media platforms such as Instagram and WhatsApp.
  Topics: training, online, instagram, indian, retailers, live, samsung, help, smes, facebook, retail, galaxy, local, india, partners.
• Schuhe24 Group partners with Neckermann in Austria - Schuhe24, which sells shoes online from over 2,000 connected retailers in Germany, is partnering with Neckermann in Austria. The cooperation should benefit both Neckermann and the retailers connected to the Schuhe24 Group, which also sells clothing, bags, jewelry, and more. The offering of the Schuhe24 retailers should be shown on… Continue reading
  Topics: sales, retailers, german, partners, neckermann, schuhe24, shoes, group, neckermannat, austria, online.
• Serious changes are coming to the E.U. VAT - As I write this in mid-December, there is no Brexit trade agreement between the U.K. and the E.U. Businesses in the U.K. have no idea what will happen on January 1, when the U.K. formally exits from the E.U. However, the real problem for U.K. and other merchants will be adjusting to changes in the E.U.'s value-added tax.
  Topics: goods, vat, country, serious, uk, changes, consumers, retailer, coming, retailers, eu, marketplaces, help.
• Subscription services ease pain for South Korean retailers - Indeed, subscription services have already evolved into many forms here expanding into diverse areas, including e-books, cosmetics, video streaming services and even rentals of Kia Motors Corp’s premium models.
  Topics: service, south, ice, food, retailers, month, launched, services, ease, buy, store, pain, subscription, customers, korean.
• The Four Pillars of Omnichannel Strategy for 2021 and Beyond - In October 2020, eMarketer increased their 2020 ecommerce retail sales forecast from 20% growth to 30%, making an omnichannel approach…
  Topics: retailers, advertising, pillars, strategy, approach, channels, omnichannel, sales, bigcommerce, success, shipping, need, platform.
• The Journey of Being a Distributor for a 100-Year-Old Brand - After a decades-long military career, Michael Hagen entered the business world when he noticed a gap in backcountry skiing with the lack of reasonably-priced and high-performance lightweight gear. In this episode of Shopify Masters, Michael shares with us how he received the distribution rights to Austrian-made skis from a century-old company and launched Hagan Ski Mountaineering.More
  Topics: gear, journey, thats, sport, brand, ski, website, im, really, distributor, 100yearold, retailers, product.
• The Move to Ecommerce: How Retailers Can Adapt During a Crisis - Ecommerce is an undeniably powerful opportunity for retail stores to increase sales and reach new customers. And, in 2020 and beyond, it will continue to become an increasingly popular shopping choice for many consumers. 
  Topics: work, sales, ecommerce, crisis, retailers, adapt, companies, items, brand, customers, need, businesses.
• The Netherlands: top spot for online retailers to expand logistics - The Netherlands is the most popular destination for online retailers looking to expand. These ecommerce players see this Western European country as the number one place to expand their logistics operations. They are also increasingly looking for fulfillment centers and warehouses outside the traditional locations. Other countries in Europe where… Continue reading
  Topics: netherlands, spot, expand, high, retailers, popular, survey, logistics, locations, looking, online.
• The Seller's Guide to Ecommerce Success on Amazon, Instacart, Walmart and Target - These four major ecommerce platforms require different strategies for success.
  Topics: advertising, brands, target, walmart, instacart, retailers, ecommerce, success, guide, sellers, platform, consumer, amazon.
• The impact of Covid-19 on consumer trends in Europe - The Covid-19 pandemic has drastically changed the way we shop online and offline. Food retailers have benefited from it, while omnichannel non-food retailers are just starting to recover. How has the coronavirus impacted consumer trends in Europe? It seems that four in ten consumers in Europe have experienced a decrease… Continue reading
  Topics: covid19, europe, consumer, retailers, pandemic, consumers, spending, online, trends, buying, planning, groceries, grocery, impact.
• The impact of Covid-19 on ecommerce - 2020 was a challenging year for many. At the same time, ecommerce grew like never before. What can we expect from 2021? SearchNode published a new report on the latest ecommerce trends and the impact of Covid-19. Last year, SearchNode published a report on ecommerce trends in 2020. Of course,… Continue reading
  Topics: online, course, sales, ecommerce, physical, say, supply, companies, covid19, impact, retailers.
• The top 100 retailers in Austria - The top 100 retailers in Austria generated sales of 38.7 billion euros in 2018. The ranking of Austria’s largest retailers is led by six companies that have exceeded the billion euros mark: Rewe, Spar, Hofer, Lidl, XXXL Group and Media Saturn. Together, they generate 32 percent of all retail sales… Continue reading
  Topics: sales, online, million, ecommerce, euros, austria, retailers, retail, players, place.
• These Are the Retail Trends in Ecommerce for This Year - By July 2020, it was estimated that ecommerce in Mexico reached a development of 94%, while in the United States the percentage of online orders doubled to 40% during the quarantine.
  Topics: channels, physical, trends, way, orders, online, retail, retailers, stores, store, ecommerce, dark.
• This shopping season will be different for this reason - What is a fact is that we are currently in a time of transition.
  Topics: reason, consumers, different, season, stores, return, longer, buying, shopping, retailers, omnichannel, consumer, research.
• TryNow raises $12M to bring try-before-you-buy, Prime Wardrobe as a service to online retailers - Amazon’s Prime Wardrobe has been a key way for the e-commerce giant to expand its reach selling clothing and other apparel: giving shoppers an easy way to try on several items, return what they don’t want and pay for what they keep has helped it cross the virtual chasm by bringing the online experience a […]
  Topics: retailers, technology, try, trybeforeyoubuy, trynow, wardrobe, payment, raises, shopify, service, build, prime, bring, online, ecommerce, techcrunch.
• Two-thirds of the Largest U.S. Retailers Use Content Marketing - Some 33 of the 50 largest U.S. retail companies use content marketing. And 22 of those are doing it fairly well. I reviewed the websites and social media channels of the 50 largest U.S. retailers, according to the National Retail Federation, to learn which ones used content marketing.
  Topics: company, blog, stores, largest, retail, walmart, marketing, retailers, twothirds, used, content, amazon.
• UK Treasury explores online sales tax - The Treasury, the UK’s economic and finance ministry, is exploring options for an online sales tax. With this measure, it wants to shift the balance between spending online and in physical stores. British high streets are currently struggling due to the Covid-19 pandemic. There’s a massive boost in ecommerce in… Continue reading
  Topics: uk, treasury, explores, british, retailers, physical, shops, tax, sales, high, retail, online.
• UK’s Zilch raises $80M at a $500M+ valuation for its direct-to-consumer buy now, pay later service - The buy now, pay later model, popularized by companies like Klarn and Affirm has been one of the big e-commerce winners in the last year, giving consumers who might be stretched financially another option to pay for things when they buy them online. While that has prompted the UK financial authority to re-examine how it […]
  Topics: techcrunch, pay, later, uks, card, buy, financial, bnpl, zilch, raises, belamant, directtoconsumer, uk, retailers, valuation, service, payment.
• US online grocery sales hit record $7.2 billion in June - Despite the slow reopening of the U.S. economy over the past several weeks, online grocery shopping is continuing to reach ever-higher numbers as Americans seem to be in no rush to return to the store. According to new research released today by Brick Meets Click and Mercatus, U.S. online grocery sales hit a record $7.2 […]
  Topics: retailers, billion, research, record, sales, online, customers, million, services, households, hit, techcrunch, service, grocery.
• US online holiday sales to reach $189B this year, up 33% from 2019 - The accelerated shift to e-commerce due to the pandemic will have a significant impact on U.S. online holiday sales, according to a new forecast from Adobe Analytics. Adobe Analytics predicts that U.S. online sales for the months of November and December 2020 will reach $189 billion, representing a 33% year-over-year increase and setting a new record. […]
  Topics: cyber, sales, holiday, retailers, reach, billion, consumers, increase, adobe, 189b, analytics, day, techcrunch, online.
• US shopping app downloads on Black Friday reached a record 2.8M installs - Many U.S. consumers spent this year’s Black Friday sales event shopping from home on mobile devices. That led to first-time installs of mobile shopping apps in the U.S. to break a new record for single-day installs on Black Friday 2020, according to a report from Sensor Tower. The firm estimates that U.S. consumers downloaded approximately […]
  Topics: techcrunch, shopping, mobile, 28m, installs, record, black, downloads, sales, saw, retailers, app, consumers, reached, apps.
• Ula raises $20 million to expand its e-commerce marketplace in Indonesia - Tokopedia, Lazada, Shopee, and other firms created an e-commerce market in Indonesia in the past decade, making it possible for consumers to shop online in the island nation. But as is true in other Asian markets, most small retailers and mom-and-pop stores in the Southeast Asian country still face a myriad of challenges in sourcing […]
  Topics: retailers, million, retail, india, capital, small, techcrunch, chain, marketplace, ecommerce, market, raises, ula, supply, expand, markets, indonesia.
• Use dynamic CTAs to close more B2B leads - B2B leads typically require multiple touches before they become customers. You can help leads move quicker through your funnel by dynamically adjusting the landing page content they see.
  Topics: tactics, sales, ctas, community, techcrunch, marketing, growth, dynamic, leads, close, thats, b2b, worlds, offline, retailers, process.
• Wholesale marketplace Abound raises $22.9M - Abound, an online marketplace that helps independent retailers stock their shelves with new products from up-and-coming brands, is announcing that it has raised $22.9 million in its first institutional round of funding. CEO Bill Shope founded the company with Niklas de la Motte and Drew Sfugaras. He told me that small retailers are constantly on […]
  Topics: retailers, shope, products, raises, marketplace, abound, ventures, 229m, trade, thats, brands, wholesale, techcrunch, team, store.
• Wholesale marketplace Ankorstore raises €25 million - Ankorstore, a wholesale marketplace from France, has raised 29.9 million dollars (25 million euros) in a Series A round. Index Ventures led the round, while existing investors GFC, Alven and Aglaé participated. At the moment, Ankorstore is live in eight countries across Europe. It started in France last year, but… Continue reading
  Topics: order, ankorstore, round, wholesale, france, million, marketplace, retailers, brands, shop, independent, raises.
• Will the Pandemic Impact Christmas 2020 Ecommerce Sales? - The coronavirus pandemic that shuttered much of the worldwide economy in the first half of this year may yet impact Christmas 2020. In this post, I'll address a few coronavirus-related scenarios and offer suggestions for how ecommerce merchants can assess the potential impact on their company's holiday sales.
  Topics: shopping, ecommerce, report, inventory, impact, retail, pandemic, sales, retailers, holiday, christmas.
• Zalando expands Connected Retail to Poland, Sweden and Spain - Zalando has announced the expansion of its Connected Retail program to three new markets in Europe. Retailers based in Poland, Sweden and Spain will be able to connect their inventory to the online Zalando platform. With Connected Retail, brick-and-mortar retailers get access to online orders from customers who shop on… Continue reading
  Topics: sweden, poland, expands, spain, retailers, germany, connected, retail, stores, markets, online, zalando.