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The amount of online shoppers in Europe decreased 1 percent in 2023. However, the amount of regular online shoppers has remained stable. And 7 out of 10 of these regular online shoppers were active on C2C platforms, where they bought or sold secondhand products. These data come from the E-shopper…

At least 79 percent of fashion retailers are currently charging for returns in the United Kingdom. While paid returns are now common in the fashion industry, within the total ecommerce market a majority is still offering free returns (52 percent). Since 2022, large fashion retailers such as H&M and Zara…

Handelsverband Deutschland (HDE) calls on politicians to be stricter towards cheap marketplaces from China, including Temu. The interest group advocates for strengthening customs and suggests a digital platform where every shipment must be registered.According to HDE, Temu and similar platforms can operate relatively undisturbed, leading to unfair competition. “Neither the…

Only a fraction of online retailers in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland offer free delivery for online orders. The largest group of sellers charges shoppers an average of between 2 and 5 euros for shipping.This is according to recent research on shipping and return management by the German retail institute EHI.…

Ecommerce giant Amazon is entering the secondhand fashion market in Europe. It is collaborating with luxury resale platform Hardly Ever Worn It. Customers in the United Kingdom, Spain, Germany and Italy can now browse pre-owned fashion items on Luxury Stores at Amazon. The online marketplace has been selling pre-owned or…

Swedish online seller of caps and hats, Hatstore, is building a new office and warehouse. The new warehouse will be 5,000 square meters in size. The company’s logistics operations will be expanded, with 43 new picking robots, 12 gates and 40,000 boxes. Hatstore is a Swedish online retailer. It sells…

Marketplace solution provider Mirakl generated nearly 160 million dollars (148.6 million euros) in annual recurring revenue in 2023. This is a growth of 20 percent compared to a year before. Additionally, the Mirakl Platform has reached profitability in the fourth quarter of last year. The French marketplace solution provider offers…

Polish ecommerce platform Saleor has raised 8 million dollars, or 7.4 million euros, in a funding round. Ecommerce giant Zalando is one of the investors. The capital injection will be used to drive further growth. Saleor is an open-source ecommerce software platform from Poland. It was founded in 2020. It…

The British government has issued an urgent plea to Amazon to unfreeze seller funds. Kevin Hollinrake, the enterprise minister, expressed deep concern after a flood of complaints. “I would urge you to look into this issue further as a matter of urgency”, he wrote to Amazon.Approximately four hundred complaints were…

Last year, Spanish wholesale platform BigBuy generated a turnover of 123 million euros. This is a growth of 15 percent compared to a year earlier. According to the company, at least 90 percent of the orders it received were cross-border. In 2022, the Spanish dropshipping supplier generated a turnover of…

This week, Shopify has launched its Winter ’24 Edition, which includes more than 100 product updates to its ecommerce platform. These include features to make international selling easier. Merchants can now add a localized online store for up to 3 markets. New features The ecommerce software provider a Shopify Edition…

Third-party sellers on the curated Home24 marketplace have generated more than 100 million euros in sales. The marketplace was launched in 2022. Since then, the marketplace has grown steadily. Home24 is a home and living ecommerce platform, based in Berlin. It has a product range of more than 250,000 products…

Many British Amazon merchants are at a loss after the platform froze payments, leading to numerous questions and complaints from traders. Some of them claim to be in financial straits due to the situation.In many cases, sellers are unsure about the exact reasons behind the blockade and are clueless about…

Online product spending in Germany has experienced a double-digit decline for the first time last year. Expenditures amounted to 79.7 billion euros, a decrease of 11.8 percent compared to the 90.4 billion in 2022.This information is reported by the Bundesverband E-Commerce und Versandhandel Deutschland, or bevh for short, in a…

In March, the rapidly growing ecommerce player from China, Temu, will open its marketplace to sellers from the United States. Shortly after, it will also add European sellers. However, it remains to be seen whether online sellers will actually join the Chinese platform. Temu is an international online marketplace, backed…

As of next spring, German individuals who engage in significant trading on platforms may face scrutiny from tax authorities. This is a result of the new European Platform Tax Transparency Act.The Brussels-based law establishes comprehensive reporting obligations for digital platforms to combat tax evasion and prevent black market trading. While…

In 2022/23, the European recommerce market was valued at 94 billion euros. The market share, compared to the total European ecommerce market, is now 12.3 percent. It is expected to increase to 14 percent in the next three years. Recommerce is a relatively new term, which includes solutions like repair,…

For the allocation of the Buy Box, Amazon in the United Kingdom promises not to differentiate between online sellers who use or do not use Prime-related fulfillment services. “Eligibility for Prime and the Prime badge will not be a criterion when determining the Featured Offer.”Amazon communicated this to the Competition…

For online sellers, it is more important that existing rules are enforced than the introduction of new rules. This is stated by Ecommerce Europe in a manifesto prepared in the lead-up to the elections for a new European Parliament.Ecommerce Europe describes the manifesto as “a way forward for the European…

Within the top 100 of the biggest online stores in the Netherlands in 2023, 63 percent was custom-built. A year earlier, the amount of these kinds of stores was still 55 percent. Compared to 2020, this is a growth of 50 percent. These findings come from research conducted by 3WebApps,…

This week, French government agency Business France and Alibaba have launched a partnership to promote French SMEs. Through this initiative, online merchants can more easily promote their products on a global scale. This will increase the amount of exporting companies in France. Ecommerce giant Alibaba has launched a platform this…

Thomann from Germany has become Europe’s largest online seller of musical instruments. Last year, the revenue reached approximately 1.4 billion euros, with almost two-thirds of it coming from outside the domestic market.This was stated by managing director Hans Thomann junior in an extensive interview with Handelsblatt. Thomann is an exponent…

French postal service company La Poste has installed a fitting room in two of its post offices in Paris. It wants to install fitting rooms in seven of its branches in total. With this experiment, customers can try on their online orders immediately after collection. According to La Poste, many…

Niceshops, an online retailer and ecommerce service provider from Saaz, Austria, is saying goodbye to 20 percent of its workforce. Cost savings are necessary to “economically stabilize” the company.From its headquarters in Saaz and branches in Graz and Vienna, Niceshops manages more than 45 different online stores in both B2B…