Marketplace drives online growth for Decathlon
Last year, Decathlon generated 26 percent of its German trade volume online. The marketplace’s share within that…
5 Content Marketing Ideas for May 2025
May is a fertile time for content marketers. The month has prominent retail holidays, including Mother’s Day….
Retail, E-Commerce Merchants Lose $4 for Every $1 in Fraud: Report
Merchants lose billions to fraud every year, but theft estimates are often underestimated. That’s because, as a…
SMIL on?
I was chatting with Andy Clarke the other day about a new article he wants to write…
Crafting Strong DX With Astro Components and TypeScript
I’m a big fan of Astro’s focus on developer experience (DX) and the onboarding of new developers….
Charts: Global Consumer Views on Tariffs
The Boston Consulting Group provides strategy and advisory services to enterprises worldwide. The firm’s occasional “Consumer Radar…
Worlds Collide: Keyframe Collision Detection Using Style Queries
A friend DMs Lee Meyer a CodePen by Manuel Schaller containing a pure CSS simulation of one…
72 million Europeans gain access to TikTok Shop
Starting today, TikTok Shop is available in Germany, France, and Italy, where a total of 72.1 million…
Dutch Shopping Awards winners announced
Last Friday, the winners of this year’s prestigious Dutch Shopping Awards were announced. Online supermarket Picnic was…
Honeymoon Is Ending for Email Marketing
Email has long been among the most profitable ecommerce marketing channels, with a relatively high return on…
How to start a subscription business
Consumers spent over $31 billion globally on subscription box services in 2023 and that market is expected…
Automated Visual Regression Testing With Playwright
Comparing visual artifacts can be a powerful, if fickle, approach to automated testing. Playwright makes this seem…
MALK Plant Milk Masters In-Store Retail
Ryan Rouse has a formula for scaling physical retail sales. First penetrate niche markets, he says, then…
Belgians spent 17.4 billion euros online in 2024
Last year, Belgian consumers spent 17.4 billion euros on online purchases. This was a billion euros more…
Otto thrives thanks to 24% increase in marketplace sales
Otto has grown faster than the ecommerce market in Germany over the past fiscal year, largely thanks…
52% German online retailers are dissatisfied
A majority of German ecommerce businesses are not happy with how the industry is performing. Only 6…
AI Will Help Advertisers and Shoppers
In what seems like no time at all, artificial intelligence has become a mainstream business tool. One…
The seven best enterprise ecommerce platforms
If you’re in charge of running a high-volume store, you’re familiar with the constant pressure to optimize…
Ecommerce in the Netherlands increased 5% in 2024
Last year, Dutch consumers spent 36 billion euros online. This was an increase of 5 percent, compared…
The Problem with Optimizing for GenAI
Optimizing for visibility in generative AI platforms seems easy enough. Enter a sitemap URL into Bing Webmaster…
Case Study: Combining Cutting-Edge CSS Features Into a “Course Navigation” Component
I came across this awesome article navigator by Jhey Tompkins: It solved a UX problem I was…
Behind the Cart: Inside Universal Yums’ $40M subscription box business with CTO Devin Price
Welcome to Behind the Cart, a series where we sit down with the people behind the brands…
Online DIY market valued 66 billion euros in 2024
The European online DIY market reached a revenue of 66 billion euros last year. Compared to the…
AI Translates Retail Jargon Into Shopper-Friendly Content
Consumer research reveals that a lack of product details is a big selling problem for online marketers….