Amazon has taken an important step in the field of fast commerce in Europe. The company launched Amazon Now in London. Users can order thousands of everyday essentials, including groceries and personal care items, delivered within 30 minutes in select areas of the city.
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Topshop launches European online store
Fashion brand Topshop has launched a specialized European online store. The new website is active in 23 markets in Europe. Previously known as a high street brand, the brand has undergone a digital transformation.
Wolt is turning into a broad trading platform
Finnish e-commerce platform Wolt has launched an update to its app. With the update, the company wants to take a step towards becoming a cross-category trading platform. It gives retailers more opportunities to showcase their products to a wide audience.
Are your product pages invisible to AI? A new retail fix
Two new product updates aim to help retailers use agent-based AI more effectively by improving shopper trust and making product detail pages (PDPs) easier for machines to understand. Cimulate’s new agent trading platform combines traditional web search with newer discovery channels, including search engines and conversational commerce. Cimulate’s CommerceGPT adds new features to enhance traditional … Read more
E-commerce orders surged in 2025, dominated by top-performing brands
E-commerce orders in the United States will jump 147% year over year in 2025, with top-performing brands driving more than half of that growth, according to research released today by Omnisend. The research analyzed e-commerce performance across 150,000 brands based on 27 billion emails, 321 million SMS messages and 458 million push notifications sent globally … Read more
Why RFPs don’t work in the 14-day B2B sales cycle
Entering today’s B2B buying process feels less like a marathon and more like a sprint. Nearly half of B2B deals now close in just 14 days, according to new data from LinkedIn. This acceleration is recent. The share of B2B purchase decisions closed within a two-week window jumped to 45%, up from 38% last quarter. … Read more
Digital ID in mobile wallets helps draw customers back to the store
Customer acceptance of mobile wallets is firmly established. What started as a convenient way to pay has expanded into a broader relationship of trust as consumers increasingly rely on digital wallets for loyalty programs, offers and store credentials—and now their most sensitive credentials: their IDs. With the majority of U.S. adults already using platforms like … Read more
Returns turn vacation returns into a margin issue
April may be the cruellest month in the minds of poets, but January is the cruellest month for retailers. January, also known as Returnuary in retail circles, can be a month when retailers see their margins melt away due to product returns. According to the holiday edition of ReturnPro’s Returns Report, more than half of … Read more
Unified platforms and Agentic AI will define e-commerce in 2026
Entering 2026, digital retailers and e-commerce businesses face a radically changed retail landscape shaped by rising customer expectations, lower margins and rapid advances in AI-driven commerce technology. The most significant and persistent challenge for e-commerce retailers in 2025 has been the ever-increasing customer expectations for hyper-personalization and immersive experiences, particularly the difficulty of building trust … Read more
How money launderers use e-commerce
The risks of money laundering are no longer limited to banks. As online commerce expands globally, retailers find themselves exposed to threats that were once limited to the financial sector. The online retail industry is a perfect whirlwind of cross-border transactions with payment methods including credit/debit cards, digital wallets and bank transfers. These channels provide … Read more