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.
Italy Adds €2 Fee on Top of EU Customs Charge – Total €7 Per Parcel
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
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”
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
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
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
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
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
A reported ecommerce fraud case in China has put renewed attention on a problem many merchants already understand well: return ...
TikTok Shop’s Late Dispatch Rules Are a Wake-Up Call for Sellers Who Still Think Shipping Is “Back Office”
TikTok Shop’s updated Late Dispatch Rate rules are now in effect, putting more pressure on sellers to dispatch orders within ...
The EU–South Korea Digital Trade Deal Is More Useful Than It Sounds
The agreement does a few things that ecommerce operators should genuinely care about. First, it limits data localisation requirements. If ...
