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UK Online Sales Were Up 14% in June. They Just Turned Negative in the Final Week of July.

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UK Online Sales Were Up 14% in June. They Just Turned Negative in the Final Week of July.

Ivana Soldat

The UK retail data for July arrives with an almost perfect narrative arc. In June, online sales grew 14.4% year ...

Boutique Shopping May Be Making a Return

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Boutique Shopping May Be Making a Return

Kale Havervold

While online shopping is still incredibly popular and not going anywhere anytime soon, it seems many people are making the ...

Amazon and Walmart Accused of Failing to Flag Fraud

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Amazon and Walmart Accused of Failing to Flag Fraud

Kale Havervold

While Amazon and Walmart’s shopping assistants, Alexa and Sparky, can detect when a “Made in USA” label is fake, the ...

Kentucky Is About to Tax the Companies That Sell Your Data

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Kentucky Is About to Tax the Companies That Sell Your Data

Ivana Soldat

Most tax compliance stories for ecommerce sellers follow a familiar pattern. A state tweaks its economic nexus thresholds, the compliance ...

USPS Broke Its Own Postage System and Kept Charging Sellers Anyway

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USPS Broke Its Own Postage System and Kept Charging Sellers Anyway

Ivana Soldat

The USPS Automated Package Verification system has, since launching in 2017, collected more than $1.4 billion in underpaid postage and ...

Congress Is Trying to Give Amazon Sellers the Right to Sue Amazon

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Congress Is Trying to Give Amazon Sellers the Right to Sue Amazon

Ivana Soldat

Every marketplace seller has a version of the same story. The email arrives with no warning. Account suspended. Funds held. ...

New Adobe Tool Optimizes Your Product Details for AI

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New Adobe Tool Optimizes Your Product Details for AI

Kale Havervold

To help companies improve their product discovery in AI and Large Language Model (LLM) platforms, Adobe has added a new ...

PayPal and Amazon Introduce BNPL For German and Austrian Customers

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PayPal and Amazon Introduce BNPL For German and Austrian Customers

Kale Havervold

Amazon and PayPal have partnered together to introduce a new Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) solution aimed at giving German ...

Shein's U.S. Operations Are Under Investigation 

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Shein’s U.S. Operations Are Under Investigation 

Kale Havervold

With a planned Hong Kong Initial Public Offering (IPO) on the horizon, Shein has disclosed that its operations in the ...

Vietnam Continues to Be One of the Rising Stars in Ecommerce

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Vietnam Continues to Be One of the Rising Stars in Ecommerce

Kale Havervold

Vietnam continues its run as one of the fastest-growing ecommerce markets on the planet, with sales reaching over $11 billion ...