HDE Forecast, Primark, Tonies, Fluidify, Just Eat Takeaway.com, Stash, Shein, Alibaba, Antitrust, Paypal, Amazon + Visa, Twitter
“Amazon Fresh” has been in Germany for five years – for the birthday, the service provides a bit of useless knowledge: Most of the orders came from the Berlin district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf and the Munich district of Neuhausen-Nymphenburg. The most-ordered vegetables were tomatoes, and the most-ordered fruit were organic bananas. The equivalent of 10,000 bathtubs full of milk and 21 kilometers of coffee packages were delivered. Most useful fact: Amazon has been donating to the Tafel in Berlin, Munich and Hamburg since 2021.
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HDE the growth forecast for e-commerce drops to 12.4 percent
The day before yesterday, the BEVH had announced a slowdown in online growth from 11.5 to 2.3 percent since the outbreak of war (the “Morning Briefing” reported), yesterday the HDE announced: the association lowered its annual forecast by a full billion. Online trade will increase by 12.4 percent rather than the 13.4 percent originally expected, writes the association, amounted to 97.4 billion euros. “The online space [leidet] as does all retail under the current bad consumer sentiment.”
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Alibaba looks beyond scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions
In the face of climate change, leaders around the world have a duty to take responsibility and show leadership. As a pioneer, Alibaba has introduced the “Scope 3+” concept, which uses Alibaba’s digital platforms. This aims to stimulate sustainable products, services and eco-friendly behavior of all activities in the ecosystem as well as new technology and business model innovations and by 2035 a reduction of CO2-Emissions of 1.5 billion tons possible. More
Primark is working on a new German website – without an online shop
The textile discounter Primark announces Opposite Fashionunited.de a new German website for the summer. So far, a limited selection of products can be seen there, for the new appearance “a huge product range” is planned with more product information and information about what is available in the stores. But that should remain a pure shop window: the costs of e-commerce are too high for a discounter.
Tonies online sold in five other countries
Tonies, Düsseldorf-based provider of radio play boxes and necessary figures, has the web shop Tonies.com/en-eu open for the countries Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain and Portugal, writes buchreport.de. Tonies are now represented in twelve countries and further market entries are planned.
Hose onliner Fluidify is revamping the shop
Fluidify.com is an online shop for hoses and everything around it (except water). Together with the software house Antiloop, a new shop version with simpler customer processes, better usability and more performance goes live in April, reports Antiloop proudly. A hose configurator is currently being developed. Fluidify FT works with the e-commerce software Spryker and belongs to Haberkorn.
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TRADE INTERNATIONALJust Eat Takeaway.com Loses Chairman and COO
Just Eat Takeaway.com, Dutch delivery service group and parent of Lieferando, reports two departures: 1) Chairman of the Supervisory Board Adriaan Nühn will not stand for re-election, the mandate will end at the end of yesterday’s general meeting. His deputy Corinne Vigreux will take over his duties until further notice. 2) Also die Contract extension for Chief Operating Officer Jörg Gerbig has been taken over from the agenda become. There is a complaint against him for inappropriate behavior during a company event. Gerbig is cooperating in the investigation of the incident and will do so later if the allegations turn out to be unfounded.
Switzerland: Stash overturns foreign expansion
The Swiss quick commerce company Stash, on the road in Zurich, Basel, Lucerne and Geneva, is slowing down its growth and instead wants more profitability. Handelszeitung.ch expected Geneva will be abandoned and the expansion into French-speaking Switzerland and abroad (Brussels, Vienna, Tel Aviv) will not be implemented. In Zurich and the surrounding area, however, the offer is to be consolidated, Bern, Lausanne and Winterthur would be “targeted at the earliest in 2023”. Stash promises Deliveries within ten minutes.
Chinese fast fashion marketplace Shein has become the #1 most downloaded iPhone app in the US, reports Marketplacepulse.com. In the “Shopping” category it was already in 2021 and this year too “in dozens of countries”. The success means a lot, because Shein was designed for Chinese manufacturers to sell directly to Western Gen Z – it seems to be working. “And yet the app is probably only known to the target group,” comments the website. In Germany, the Shein app is not one of the ten most loaded mobile applications, complements internetworld.de.
China: Confusion leads to price fluctuations for Alibaba
reports on handelsblatt.com and businessinsider.com However, an imprecise report by the Chinese broadcaster CCTV affected the Alibaba share: A short message about restrictions against a Mr. Ma led to a price drop of 9.6 percent on the Hong Kong stock exchange. That was largely caught up after it became clear that Alibaba founder Jack Ma was not meant. The incident shows “how nervous investors are,” according to Handelsblatt.com.
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Bundeskartellamt places Meta under “special abuse control”
According to Alphabet/Google (the Morning Briefing reported), Facebook operator Meta Platforms is now “a company of paramount cross-market competitive importance.” The Bundeskartellamt made this assessment public yesterday and referred to the possibility, on the basis of the finding, “to take action against any violations of competition much more efficiently than we were able to do with the instruments available to date”. Meta has waived an appeal against the decision. It is valid for five years.
Paypal collects the purchase on account in Germany
Amazon.de starts installment purchase via Visa
The “Amazon.de Visa Card” from Landesbank Berlin now also allows installment purchases on Amazon.de: According to the product page This is possible from a purchase value of 100 euros and remains interest-free with a term of three months, with other terms an effective annual interest rate of 8.99 percent applies. Earlier purchases can be subsequently converted into an installment purchase. Announced to the Amazon Watchblog Amazon and Landesbank Berlin will only cooperate until the end of 2022. “It has not yet been said how the program will continue after that.”
Twittern could “perhaps” soon cost companies money
The tweet received a lot of attention yesterday: Elon Musk, who may soon become the owner of Twitter, gives two lines of thought about the company’s future business model. “Twitter will always be free for casual users, but may cost a little for businesses/governments”, tweeted uh. Not more. And there’s a “maybe” in there too. Concrete plans look different, but now nobody can say he or she was not warned.
Some studies in fast forward
- The digitization service provider Diconium comes around the corner with bad news for online retailers: 60 percent of consumers buy preferably directly from the manufacturer instead of a dealer. 63 percent of manufacturers consider direct sales to be (very) relevant as a sales model, according to the “D2C study”. (Survey of 1000 consumers and 250 manufacturers; together with Statista)
- For 63 percent of employees in e-commerce Data essential for daily work. This is one of the results of Survey “Everyday AI” by the AI specialist Dataiku. Shouldn’t the value be higher? (506 respondents in Germany, similar numbers in France, Great Britain, Netherlands, UAE; together with Yougov)
- 33 percent of German customers order at least part of daily needs online, revealed a survey by Appinio and Spryker. 21 percent can imagine going completely online within the next two years. (2500 respondents in Germany; according to internetworld.de)