Over the past ten years, Austria has tripled the number of active etailers. Last year, there were 9,000 online stores in the German-speaking country nestled in the Alps. The number of online shoppers has also doubled during the same, ten-year period. This means billions of Euros have been spent shopping online.
...read moreThere hasn't been a lot of European-based news out of the United Kingdom over the past year or two due to Brexit. However, that doesn't mean there is strict radio silence for everyone in the UK. Here is an HM Revenue & Customs Survey For Businesses Trading In Online Retail.
...read moreJust when you thought it was safe to order from Amazon to take advantage of their customer-friendly approach, returning that unwanted item – the online giant feels it is better to destroy those incoming returns and “like-new” items than to repurpose them. Even external vendors get rid of unsold goods through Amazon.
...read moreDPD is now delivering parcels using 8 electric three-wheelers called TRIPLs. The emission-free parcel delivery vehicles will begin operation in congested cities like Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne. They can efficiently serve city-centres due to their small size, working in concert with urban micro-depots to cover that last mile.
...read moreFacebook is getting ready to go green, becoming a selling platform. The bad news is, more than a third (37%) of UK consumers think Facebook does not care about them, or their data. As they monetise their Marketplace Ads, this could prove to be a bigger problem than Facebook anticipates.
...read moreZalando is expanding to Ireland and Czech Republic – their first expansion in 5 years. They are the largest online fashion retailer in Europe, much loved by their 24 million customers.
...read moreJD.com has made an old idea new again, meeting retailers’ demands for shipping goods from European markets to China. Trains are faster than shipping by sea, and cheaper than shipping by air. This may prove to be a viable solution using some old tech right here in the 21st century. Maybe JD will reinvent the train for a new millenium.
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