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TikTok Continues Amazon-like Push into Commerce with Fulfillment Services in the UK

Retail TouchPoints

Just like its Amazon counterpart, Fulfilled by Amazon or FBA, FBT will offer UK merchants picking, packing and shipping services for products sold on TikTok. Merchants aren’t required to store all of their SKUs at the warehouse or use FBT for all of their products; they can select which items they want to store and ship through FBT.

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Hit or miss: Can Pinduoduo replicate the success of Shein in the US?

Inside Retail

Founded in 2015, Pinduoduo has grown to become one of the top e-commerce platforms in China, offering a wide range of products, from daily groceries to household goods and fashion, thanks to its unique social commerce model, where customers purchase items as a team to achieve lower prices.

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UK shoppers set to spend more this Black Friday/Cyber Monday, Shopify research reveals

A1 Retail

Online shoppers want to get better prices online (51%), take advantage of online sales (49%), easily compare prices and products (37%), save time (36%), take advantage of free shipping (35%), and be able to buy the product at any time (34%).

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 316 Annual Predictions 2024

Retail Geek

No Live Streaming Commerce Still not meaningful in US in 2023 (less than 5% of social commerce in US) Yes Jason Total Score: 3 of 5 Scot : Amazon uses this 2022 setback/slowdown/reversion to the mean for a public resetting of expectations, but behind the scenes they take share and raise the bar on shipping.