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.
France Spent Four Months Taxing Temu Packages. Temu Spent Four Months Routing Around France.
On March 1, 2026, France added a €2 flat surcharge per product category to all small parcels arriving from outside ...
That Countdown Timer Telling You the Sale Ends in 3 Hours Has Been Lying to You. Italy Just Fined Someone €2 Million for It.
You have seen the timer. Every ecommerce shopper has seen the timer. It sits underneath the discounted price, ticking down ...
Someone Let AI Touch Their Ecommerce Database Without Telling the Dev Team. It Did Not Go Well.
It started with a client who wanted to move quickly. They used AI to write code, skipped the dev team ...
Is It Just You or Are Sales Actually Down? 50 Merchants Weighed In.
Forget the analyst reports. Forget the platform press releases with their carefully selected merchant success stories. If you want to ...
Home Depot Is Selling Its Customer Data to Brands That Don’t Even Sell at Home Depot
Here is a simple thing to understand about Home Depot. Every time a customer buys something, whether it’s a power ...
Vinted’s €30,000 Toy Listings Sparked a Criminal Investigation in France
The story started the way many platform scandals now start: not with an audit, not with a regulator, but with ...
Ecommerce Fraud Now Costs Retailers $5 For Every $1 Stolen
A stolen dollar does not cost merchants one dollar anymore. It costs them chargebacks, investigations, manual reviews, customer service time, ...
Online Sellers Are Panicking Over the EU’s New Mandatory Button
Online sellers have a new compliance deadline to worry about, and this time, it comes in the form of a ...
Best AI Product Image Generators for Lifestyle Product Shots
Plain product photos are useful. They show the item clearly, help shoppers understand what they are buying, and keep your ...
25 Attorneys General Couldn’t Stop Illegal Vapes. So They Went After Shopify Instead.
For years, regulators tried to kill the illegal US vape market the obvious way: go after the brands, sue the ...
