E-commerce

Google has started the US rollout of Universal Cart in Search and the Gemini app, five months after showing it at I/O. YouTube and Gmail, promised in May, are not part of the launch.

Cheap parcels from China fell by up to half after the EU's €3 duty began on 1 July. A second charge of €2 per item is due on 1 November.

Axel Springer’s leaflet platform Bonial is taking control of Tjek and moving from two European markets to six.

Ahold Delhaize took some systems offline on 12 October after finding a security issue. In the Netherlands, Albert Heijn lost its websites, apps, deliveries and loyalty offers.

Tesco Media will show approved creator videos on its website, in its app and on more than 3,800 store screens, and launched a self-serve Ad Manager.

Amazon cut fewer than 1,000 jobs in its Stores division on 8 October, in three countries, while its Prime Big Deal Days sale was running.

IFH Köln and General Evidence published the study on 7 October. It also finds that 97% of German online shoppers buy on Amazon.

Spain is the ninth market for Kaufland's online marketplace. Sellers pay one monthly fee to sell in all nine countries.

Salling Group, the Danish retailer behind Netto, agreed on 5 October to buy Proshop, an Aarhus online shop with about 400 staff.

Since 1 October Austria charges online sellers with over €100 million in local sales €2 per parcel. Several retailers want the courts to stop it.

Germany's highest civil court ruled on 1 October that Amazon's 2022 Prime price increase rested on an invalid clause. Amazon disagrees, but is moving long-time members back to the old price for now.

OpenAI has added a Try on button to clothing listings in ChatGPT. It turns a selfie into a picture of the shopper wearing the item.