Tag: Online trade
Sustainable delivery service wants to compete with Hermes and DPD
In this difficult environment, the Liefergrün start-up has now successfully completed its first major round of financing. Investors led by eCapital are putting €12 million into the company, which offers…
This speaks against free returns in online retail
Package from Zalando Hardly any customers plan the returns, returning the items is too annoying and time-consuming. (Photo: dpa) It sounds so simple: If we charge for returns in online…
Zalando boss: minimum order value & less growth
Robert Gentz First interview as Dax CEO: Returns remain free, otherwise things should change at Zalando. (Photo: Zalando) Berlin Europe’s largest fashion platform Zalando is changing its strategy in view…
Interview with Zalando boss: Less growth, more cash
Robert Gentz First interview as Dax CEO: Returns remain free, otherwise things should change at Zalando. (Photo: Zalando) Berlin Europe’s largest fashion platform Zalando is changing its strategy in view…
Boom in photo albums – sales increase significantly
myposter Marc, René and Anna Ruhland (from left to right) run the start-up for photo and poster printing together. Munich Many people used the lockdown to take a look at…
This is how consumers still get wood
Dusseldorf The dealer advertised with “many years of experience”, the prices seemed cheap. But customers who ordered firewood from the Schiltach online shop were in for a nasty surprise: the…
This is how consumers still get wood
Dusseldorf The dealer advertised with “many years of experience”, the prices seemed cheap. But customers who ordered firewood from the Schiltach online shop were in for a nasty surprise: the…
At the shopping event, consumers hold back
Discounts leave China’s consumers cold Advertisement for the 618 shopping festival in front of a shopping mall in Beijing. (Photo: Reuters) Beijing The sales of China’s major online retailers during…
Google challenges Amazon in online shopping
Google’s new campus in Mountain View Many users now start their product search directly in the Amazon search mask – Google wants to change that. San Francisco, Dusseldorf The world’s…
Just over 100 billion euros
Lidl branch The discounter exceeded the sales limit of 100 billion euros for the first time in the past financial year. (Photo: ddp/Revierfoto) Dusseldorf Gerd Chrzanowski ordered a cultural revolution…
Just over 100 billion euros
Lidl branch The discounter exceeded the sales limit of 100 billion euros for the first time in the past financial year. (Photo: ddp/Revierfoto) Dusseldorf Gerd Chrzanowski ordered a cultural revolution…
Alpacas want to become green gorillas
Alpacas Founder Antony Roczek, Tomy Eitner and Simon Chorzelski (from left) rely on a returnable deposit system for their new delivery service. Dusseldorf Delivery services for groceries are booming, and…
Douglas takes over Disapo and attacks in the pharmacy market
Dusseldorf, Frankfurt The perfumery chain Douglas takes over the mail-order pharmacy Disapo. “For us, this is the strategic entry into the German and European online pharmacy market, which with a…
Shortage of skilled workers, labor dispute: Amazon’s model for success in danger
New York, Dusseldorf Amazon’s growth seems unstoppable. The world’s largest online retailer increased its sales by more than a fifth to $470 billion last year, and profits by half to…
Cardboard is booming thanks to online and mail order business
Dusseldorf Online trade is booming – and needs more and more packaging material. The Bavarian Schumacher Packaging Group, one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of packaging solutions made of corrugated and…
How online retail encourages shoplifting
crime wave in the United States What used to be casually referred to as “shoplifting” has turned into a huge problem. (Photo: Unsplash, dpa, Getty Images, PR) san francisco Just…
How online retail encourages shoplifting
crime wave in the United States What used to be casually referred to as “shoplifting” has turned into a huge problem. (Photo: Unsplash, dpa, Getty Images, PR) san francisco Just…
How online retail encourages shoplifting
crime wave in the United States What used to be casually referred to as “shoplifting” has turned into a huge problem. (Photo: Unsplash, dpa, Getty Images, PR) san francisco Just…
Amazon partners with Stellantis: Rivian course crashes
Rivian logo The comparatively young e-car manufacturer is an important competitor of the Californian e-car pioneer Tesla. (Photo: Reuters) San Francisco After a report on a cooperation between Amazon and…
This is how dealers want to defy the consequences of the pandemic
Dusseldorf At first glance, the number promises paradisiacal times for the retail sector: According to calculations by the market research company GfK, the average per capita purchasing power will rise…