Amazon is moving another step closer to agentic shopping: The platform is combining Rufus and Alexa+ into Alexa for Shopping, bringing an AI shopping assistant to the Amazon Shopping App, the website and Echo Show devices.
Amazon is launching Amazon Supply Chain Services, further expanding its role as an infrastructure provider. The offer for sellers includes freight, distribution, fulfilment and parcel delivery – also across channels outside the Amazon platform.
eBay was targeted by a large-scale global DDoS attack, claimed by the Iranian hacker group 313 Team – with estimated revenue losses of up to USD 200 million per day. And GameStop has made an unsolicited takeover bid for eBay worth $55.5 billion.
Rossella Furnari has stepped up at Leroy Merlin, now leading as Marketplace Team Leader, taking on greater responsibility across marketplace operations. Jonny Hofberger has been Managing Director at GTK VATpilot GmbH since March. Pia Nolte left fashionette to join Douglas as a Director Partner Program. Johannes von Roth-Bandick has left TB International to step into a top leadership role as Co-CEO / Chief Commercial Officer at MAG – Marketplace Amplifier. Ronja Wichmann has taken the next step at limango, now leading as Teamlead Marketplace – Key Account, Operations & Retail Media, with a broader remit across marketplace performance.
Zalando is consistently pushing its platform strategy and is discontinuing its Connected Retail programme – at the expense of its partners: all Connected Retail retailers must decide by May 15th whether to transition into Zalando’s Partner Programme by June 2027. If not, the partnership will already end this August.
TikTok Shop is currently preparing to launch in Poland, the Netherlands, and Belgium. Meanwhile, QVC has filed for bankruptcy in the U.S. The home shopping channel has recently been suffering increasingly from the shift to TikTok Shop and Whatnot.
In 2025, sellers sold goods worth more than €10.8 billion through the second-hand marketplace Vinted, marking a nearly 50% increase compared to 2024. While net profit declined by 19% to €62 million, Vinted remains profitable for the third consecutive year.
Dr. Kai-Ulrich Deissner, CEO of CECONOMY AG / MediaMarktSaturn, will hand over the role of CEO during the course of 2026 for personal reasons. His successor Remko Rijnders will assume the role of CEO on July 1.
René Groll, previously Head of E-Commerce and Chief Digital Officer at Alberts, is joining Front Row German on May 1, where he will support the team behind the Catapult analytics tool.
Marco Pirani, Commercial Director at Benetton, left the group after four years to take the position of CEO Commercial at Lowa Sportschuhe GmbH.
Due to rising energy prices caused by the ongoing war in Iran, Amazon is requiring its marketplace sellers in the U.S. and Canada to pay a 3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge. The policy is set to take effect on April 17. It remains unclear whether it will be implemented in other countries.
One year after its launch, around 15% of German online shoppers have already purchased via TikTok Shop, according to NielsenIQ. Depth of usage is also increasing: the average purchase frequency rose from 2.3 to 3.3 purchases per year, while spending per buyer increased by around 32%. TikTok is thus increasingly evolving from a discovery channel into a transaction platform.
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