E-commerce: Amazon trials Amazon Day in Germany
Following the original launch of Amazon Day in the US last February, Amazon has announced that they will be testing the service in Germany. Amazon Day is a service for Prime members that allows them to have their orders bundled and shipped on a day of their choice....
E-Commerce: AliExpress Will Offer Click & Collect Option at El Corte Inglés in 2020
The CEO of AliExpress in Spain and Portugal, William Wang, has announced that AliExpress will offer a click and collect option for AliExpress customers via El Corte Inglés. El Corte Inglés is Europe’s biggest department store, and AliExpress are looking to grow their...
E-commerce: Facebook introduce Facebook Pay
Facebook is set to launch a new payment system which will be implemented across all three social media platforms including Facebook Messenger, Instagram and Whatsapp. Facebook Pay will enable users to shop, make donations, and transfer money between peers on its...
E-commerce: Amazon will launch its first non-Whole Foods grocery in 2020
Amazon is set to launch its first non-Whole Food grocery store in LA next year. Despite the growing number of cashier-less Amazon Go convenience stores, its new non-Whole Food grocery store will feature conventional checkout technology. Furthermore, the store will be...
E-commerce: eBay Introduce ‘buy now pay later scheme’
E-commerce platform eBay has partnered with payment giant Afterpay to enable users in Australia to pay for their purchases in instalments. The deal will allow 11 million monthly users to purchase goods from over 40,000 businesses in split payments. Afterpay offers...
Singles Day – Global media and sales phenomenon
Singles Day – Global media and sales phenomenon When we talk about shopping bonanza days, or as we call them cyber days, chances are that you think of Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Amazon Prime Day or the like but in actual fact, if we are talking shopping extravaganza,...
E-Commerce: French Marketplace Carrefour Sells Rue du Commerce
One of France’s biggest online retailers, Carrefour, is discussing plans to sell its online electronics store ‘Rue du Commerce’. They are currently in meetings with French e-commerce venture Shopinvest regarding plans to sell the online store to them. Carrefour is...
E-Commerce: Amazon Building “World-Class” Amazon Robotics Facility
Amazon has announced that it is investing $40 million towards building a brand new Amazon Robotics facility. This is to expand their reach in technology and develop robots that will increase the efficiency of Amazon’s services. Amazon Robotics’ chief technologist, Tye...
E-commerce: Alibaba generate $1 billion sales in first minute
Chinese E-commerce giant Alibaba generated a staggering $23 billion in online sales within its first nine hours of its 11.11 Singles Day launch. Sales soared $1 billion in the first minute and eight seconds, and within the first nine hours, it made two-thirds of the...
E-Show in Madrid – The Aftermath – J&P say “十分感谢”
E-show Madrid 2019 - A different type of blog story This is a different kind of article to the ones we normally publish. Madrid’s E-Show was a first for us. We were at the E-Show in order to show our company in an international professional surrounding for the very...
