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Grocers Split on How to Handle Demand for Free Delivery
March 17, 2023

Free shipping can be key to securing customer loyalty, but grocers struggle with the cost. The Context Shipping perishable foods and/or delivering them via courier can be extremely costly. As such, though grocers know that free shipping can be a powerful draw, many have determined...

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Tea Company Parlays Century-Long History Into D2C eCommerce Following
March 13, 2023

In the competitive D2C space, Mark Wendell Tea has found history makes all the difference. In an interview with PYMNTS, Hartley E. Johnson, co-owner of the Mark T. Wendell Tea Company, explained that the business has been selling direct to consumer (D2C) via catalogs and...

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Latin America Is Becoming an eCommerce Paradise, but Companies Need a Guide
March 13, 2023

Still considered an emerging collection of economies, Latin America has nevertheless taken a lead in aspects of the digital transformation of payments, in some ways pulling ahead of developed nations including the United States in areas like instant and real-time payments. That’s meaningful to residents...

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PartsBase Deploys OroMarketplace Solution for B2B Sales in Aviation Industry
March 09, 2023

PartsBase has launched an eCommerce marketplace for the aviation industry powered by Oro. The new PartsStore platform is built on OroMarketplace, Oro’s end-to-end digital marketplace solution, the companies said in a Thursday (March 9) press release emailed to PYMNTS. “Thanks to Oro’s robust and highly...

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Why eBay Doesn’t Want Consumers to Think About Paying
March 08, 2023

The phrase “seamless checkout” has been used so much to describe so many things that the meaning has gotten foggy. But given what’s at stake, this murkiness is far from optimal for consumers and merchants, and it’s the kind of thing Deepak Sharma, vice president...

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Zalando Aims to Grow by Deepening Relationships With Customers
March 07, 2023

Zalando aims to keep growing even as the economic backdrop remains challenging. Over the past year, the online platform serving the fashion and lifestyle market in Europe has grown its number of active customers by 6% to 51 million and doubled the number of members...

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Shef Opens Chef-to-Consumer Marketplace to Cooks Across US
March 02, 2023

Shef is expanding its chef-to-consumer marketplace across the United States. Cooks from anywhere in the country can now apply to sell their homemade food on the platform, Shef said in a Wednesday (March 1) press release. Launched in 2019 in the Bay Area, Shef now operates...

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MikMak Plans to Acquire Fellow eCommerce Platform Swaven
February 22, 2023

MikMak says it is going global by purchasing fellow eCommerce firm Swaven. The company announced the proposed acquisition Wednesday (Feb. 22), saying it would open the door to markets in Latin America, Europe, Africa and the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region, all places where...

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Shopify, Walmart and Amazon Joust for Merchants With Fulfillment-as-a-Service
February 21, 2023

For smaller merchants, the online sale’s the easy part — compared to logistics. For the eCommerce juggernauts — Walmart, Amazon and Shopify among them — there’s money to be made, and merchant loyalty to be minted, by offering a single point of access to handle...