If you are a frequent online shopper, and you live in Hamburg, Germany, there’s a multi-label parcel shop that unites DPD, Hermes, GLS and UPS where customers can pick up and drop off packages from any of the aforementioned logistics companies. After a one-year test run, the parcel shop for competing delivery companies has opened for business in Hamburg-Bergedorf.
...read moreWhy would anyone want to get up to turn on the computer when our phone is right next to us on the sofa? Mobile is going to dominate e-commerce sales this holiday season. 68% of all online sales throughout Black November and the Christmas shopping period are projected to be made with a phone. A global analysis by Walker Sands for Salesforce shows that holiday revenues will be ups 13% over the previous year, with AI product recommendations pushing 35% of all that revenue.
...read moreZalando has always been known for their free shipping and customer-friendly return policy. This selling point has just become a thing of the past – in Italy. Zalando will now demand payment there for shipping of orders with a value of less than €25. This marks the first time Zalando is asking for shipping costs anywhere.
...read moreGalaxus has opened for business in Germany and has ambitious plans to tackle Europe’s largest market. The Swiss electronics retailer is planning to grow into a webshop that sells, well, everything. The medium-term goal is to become one of the top 5 e-commerce players in Germany. That’s no small order.
...read moreThe government in the United Kingdom has announced a new tax for digital services that it plans to start levying on tech giants like Amazon, Google and Apple. The tax will be based on the money they make from their digital services like advertising and streaming entertainment, but not on their online sales.
...read moreThe Amazon Marketplace is growing all the time. Worldwide, 1 million new sellers started doing business on the marketplace in the last year. That’s over 2 new sellers every minute. The majority of these sellers are Chinese, who make up around 40% of the sellers on Amazon Marketplace in Europe.
...read moreShe brought antitrust investigations against Google and fined Apple $15 billion for tax avoidance. She is also starting to take an interest in Amazon. Margrethe Vestager, the European commissioner for competition, is the only person in the world seriously trying to create and maintain an even playing field for business against the tech giants of the west.
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