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Amazon has not yet been able to meet the high expectations following the launch of a Dutch webshop. It turns out that a mature market cannot be taken over just like that. And corona was both a curse and a blessing.

Don't just call wellness concept One Hundred Restrooms a lavatory: the toilet of the future has just opened in Shopping Stadsfeestzaal in Antwerp and announces ambitious expansion plans in Europe.

Amazon is going to indicate which products are sustainable. It does this with a new label 'Climate Pledge Friendly', which shows which articles on the marketplace have one or more sustainable certificates.

Prime Day, Amazon's annual bargain festival, may start this year on 13 October. For a moment it was feared that the two-day festival, with high discounts and exclusive deals, would not take place at all due to the corona crisis, but now there seems to be a date.

The online shift caused by the corona crisis is being exaggerated, according to a report by GlobalData. Consumers still buy the most in the physical store, even during the lockdown. E-commerce needs the brick and mortar store very badly.

Two real estate investors take over the bankrupt US department store chain JCPenney. They hope to secure the future of their indoor shopping centres, but this reasoning meets with a certain amount of scepticism...

Belgian contacts webshop LensOnline has broken its record turnover last semester. Covid-19 has finally allowed e-commerce to break through to all parts of the population, the company says.