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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

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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 ...

Etsy Launches New Promotion to Counter Amazon Prime Day

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Etsy Launches New Promotion to Counter Amazon Prime Day

Kale Havervold

Just ahead of Amazon’s Prime Day promotion, Etsy is aiming to gain exposure with a new campaign called “Shop Other ...

This Metric May Be the Best for Judging Marketing Effectiveness

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This Metric May Be the Best for Judging Marketing Effectiveness

Kale Havervold

If you’re driving yourself crazy trying to individually track every marketing metric and link every click to an ad, strategy, ...

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 ...

The DHL EU Suspension May Hit Certain UK Sellers Hard

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The DHL EU Suspension May Hit Certain UK Sellers Hard

Kale Havervold

As the EU is set to eliminate the customs duty exemption for parcels under €150 and introduce other rules, DHL ...

Shopify Makes Some Major Updates in the Spring ‘26 Edition

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Shopify Makes Some Major Updates in the Spring ‘26 Edition

Kale Havervold

Shopify is celebrating the arrival of spring by dropping the Spring ‘26 Edition, which highlights and breaks down over 150 ...

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 ...