15 June 2018 Retail News Roundup

Marketplaces

- Zalando wants to double its gross market value by 2020 — it’s now £4.4bn. They are spreading to Ireland and the Czech Republic this summer.


8 June 2018 Ecomm news roundup

You play checkers, couldn’t beat me playin’ chess

  • Joules CEO says he thinks more fashion companies will get into interior design
  • Amazon Echo and Alexa now available in France
  • Zalando is expanding…

Retail news roundup — 11 May 2018

ChannelAdvisor’s Catalyst EU happened last week! If you missed David Spritz’s keynote, here is the TameBay writeup. Amazon accounts for 4.2% of UK retail. Around 51% of millenials don’t care about brands and that’s why Amazon’s ~ 80 private labels are making a killing…


Retail news roundup — 04 May 2018

- Facebook Messenger is becoming more marketplace-y. Instagram has just added in-app payments feature. Both mean that Facebook is more serious about making money as a marketplace than ever before.