A £1 billion damages claim was filed on 6th June by Bira against Amazon on behalf of retailers selling via Amazon’s UK marketplace. The charge is that Amazon illegally misused their data and manipulated the Amazon Buy Box to benefit its own commercial operation and its overall revenues and profit. BIRA has instructed leading international […]
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According to reports by Business Insider and Bloomberg, Shopify is set to acquire e-commerce fulfilment startup, Deliverr, for between $2.3bn and $2.7 billion, in a deal that is expected to be finalised in the next two weeks. Deliverr, which was recently valued at $2bn and is already used by Walmart, Google Shopping and Shopify, uses
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As if we needed more evidence that there’s been a stratospheric rise in online shopping and therefore postal deliveries, retailers large and small are now facing an unprecedented shortage of packaging cardboard. With consumers ordering everything from bread makers to bicycles, clothes to ceramics and anything else you can think of via the Internet, the
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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is scrutinising eBay’s £7 billion deal with Norwegian business, Adevinta, as part of a crackdown on digital monopolies. The deal involves the sale of eBay’s classified ads division to Adevinta for £1.8 billion in cash and 44 per cent of the combined firm. The deal includes Gumtree and Motors.co.uk,
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John Lewis is planning to turn surplus shops into affordable housing as it seeks way to survive the retail crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The department store giant, which announced last month that it may be forced to close eight stores, putting 1,300 jobs at risk, can now take advantage of the Government’s planning
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Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, has been called by the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee to testify about allegations that Amazon uses data from third-party sellers to create rival products. Amazon’s private label business includes 45 brands that sell around 243,000 products across multiple categories. The company says that these products account for one per
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