Half of the top 100 retailers in the United Kingdom do not show delivery information on product pages. This impacts customer satisfaction. And of the retailers who do show delivery information, nearly 40 percent miss their own advertised delivery times. These data come from a new post-purchase study from fulfillment…
Amazon is the largest online furniture retailer in the United Kingdom, Spain, and Italy. In France, the American giant lags behind Ikea, which also ranks in the top three in other major European countries. Only in Germany does a local player, Otto, lead the market.This is reported by Fox Intelligence…
French marketplace solution provider Octopia has launched a new product, called Octopia Ads. It is the company’s own retail media solution. It enables retailers to implement a sponsored search solution for their products (1P) and sellers and brands products (3P). Octopia is a solution for ecommerce businesses looking to launch…
Online spending in Turkey more than doubled last year, the Ministry of Commerce reports. Significant growth is expected again this year. This is largely the result of inflation, but there is also considerable autonomous growth. Ecommerce spending in Turkey amounted to 1.85 trillion Turkish liras in 2023, or 53 billion…
Germany’s Ministry of Finance has expressed support for the abolition of the current customs exemption that benefits Asian marketplaces. AliExpress, Shein, Temu, and other platforms currently enjoy a tax exemption on import packages valued up to 150 euros.Last year alone, according to official figures, two billion parcels with a value…
Last Friday, the winners of the first Baltic Ecommerce Awards were announced. The main award, the Grand Prix, was presented to HackMotion. This Latvian company sells sports technology. This year marks the first time that the awards were held at a Baltic scale. In the last three years, the organizers…
At least 95.8 percent of European consumers shopped online in the first quarter of this year. In the United Kingdom, that percentage was 93 percent. And in the Netherlanders, 96 percent of consumers shopped online. These data come from the recently published Consumer Insight Report from AliExpress. The online marketplace…
Marketplaces with origins in Asia have gained significant popularity in Germany over the past year. Recent research indicates that nine out of ten German consumers are familiar with these platforms, and 43 percent purchase items from them. Especially Temu is on the rise. This is reported by ECC KÖLN, a…
To make deliveries to customers in the United Kingdom more sustainable, Amazon is increasingly using so-called micromobility hubs. Step by step, the company is revamping its delivery network. The first micromobility hub in Northern Ireland recently opened.Micromobility hubs are essentially sorting centers in urban areas. Amazon is busy implementing a…
Austrian online marketplace Shöpping is launching in Germany at the end of this year. By doing so, Austrian sellers will be able to reach a larger audience. At the same time, the marketplace will continue adding more retailers from the European Union to the platform. Shöpping is an online marketplace…
