Articles by: Ivana Soldat

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Ivana Soldat

Ivana writes about what’s actually happening in ecommerce right now, from major platform updates to the trends on how people shop online.

Focused on verified industry developments, she covers marketplace dynamics, DTC and omnichannel growth, conversion and performance strategies, retail media, and shifts in consumer behavior across leading ecommerce platforms and emerging commerce technologies.

Fix This Now or Watch Your Competitors Capture the AI Shopping Wave While You Block It

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Fix This Now or Watch Your Competitors Capture the AI Shopping Wave While You Block It

Ivana Soldat

There’s a question that sounds futuristic but is already quietly becoming operational: when an AI agent buys something on your ...

China's State TV Did an Exposé on People Eating Their Durians and Then Photoshopping Them as Damaged for a Refund

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China’s State TV Did an Exposé on People Eating Their Durians and Then Photoshopping Them as Damaged for a Refund

Ivana Soldat

Somewhere in Shandong province in April, a seller named Mr. Feng packed five pounds of tomatoes and shipped them for ...

Italy Adds €2 Fee on Top of EU Customs Charge - Total €7 Per Parcel

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Italy Adds €2 Fee on Top of EU Customs Charge – Total €7 Per Parcel

Ivana Soldat

For years, the business model of platforms like Temu, Shein, and AliExpress was built on a very specific tax quirk: ...

Italy Is Boiling and AliExpress Is Restocking Fans Every Single Day

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Italy Is Boiling and AliExpress Is Restocking Fans Every Single Day

Ivana Soldat

A pandemic clears out hand sanitizer. A war drives up generators. And a relentless early-summer heatwave, the kind that has ...

Europe's Biggest Retailers Are Asking the EU to Please Not Call Their AI Sofa Photos "Deepfakes"

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Europe’s Biggest Retailers Are Asking the EU to Please Not Call Their AI Sofa Photos “Deepfakes”

Ivana Soldat

The European Union AI Act has a deepfake problem, and it has nothing to do with politicians’ faces or forged ...

India's Quick Commerce Boom Just Quietly Ate the Grocery Run

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India’s Quick Commerce Boom Just Quietly Ate the Grocery Run

Ivana Soldat

There’s a very specific kind of denial that happens when a market disruption doesn’t look like a meteor, it looks ...

China's Biggest Shopping Festival Just Replaced Its Discount Math With Robots

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China’s Biggest Shopping Festival Just Replaced Its Discount Math With Robots

Ivana Soldat

For years, surviving China’s 618 sale meant doing math homework. Cross-store discount stacking, deposit inflation schemes, the dreaded “spend 300 ...

Italy's Top Court Just Closed the Drop-Shipping VAT Loophole

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Italy’s Top Court Just Closed the Drop-Shipping VAT Loophole

Ivana Soldat

There’s a version of drop-shipping that’s just smart logistics, and there’s a version that’s basically a tax magic trick. Italy’s ...

Gymshark Just Got Sued Over the Thing Every Influencer Brand Does and Hopes You Won't Notice

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Gymshark Just Got Sued Over the Thing Every Influencer Brand Does and Hopes You Won’t Notice

Ivana Soldat

There’s a moment every online shopper has had: you see someone in your feed who isn’t famous, isn’t selling anything ...

Easy Returns Are Becoming an Expensive Problem for Ecommerce Sellers

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Easy Returns Are Becoming an Expensive Problem for Ecommerce Sellers

Ivana Soldat

A reported ecommerce fraud case in China has put renewed attention on a problem many merchants already understand well: return ...