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Facebook is chasing fake products, Carrefour launches the marketplace, IKEA opens pick-up points

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Franprix tests home delivery while customer is away French supermarket chain Franprix has started tests with delivering groceries to the customer’s home, while the customer isn’t at home during the delivery. Franprix is the first company to test this kind of service in France. If the experiment is a success, Franprix wants to launch the service in the Parisian region by the end of this year or early 2019, LSA writes. Since the end of April, Franprix has been testing this type of delivery service with a dozen beta testers. → Read more at Ecommerce News Facebook cracks down on sellers of junky products Facebook is getting tougher with businesses that advertise products that are unsatisfactory or aren’t delivered on time. The social media giant’s new feature lets people leave reactions about their shopping experience after seeing an ad and making a purchase through the platform’s mobile app or website. The

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GDPR over and over again, Shopify launches a comm tool, EU needs a digital single market

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How to Prepare Your Google Analytics Account for GDPR Google recently sent out an email to all their analytics admins about GDPR. The purpose of this email was to introduce product updates that will help us get ready for data privacy compliance. One of the product updates Google is introducing is data retention control. This feature will allow you to manage how long Google stores your user data on Google’s servers. Data retention control will go into effect in your account the same day GDPR launches, May 25th. The current default for data retention is 26 months. But you can select to retain your user data for a shorter or longer period. Google has also introduced a user deletion tool. This tool will allow you to remove users’ Client IDs, User IDs, or App Instance IDs from your analytics data.  When a user opts out of tracking, you’ll use this tool to remove their data. →

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Carrefour relaunches website, Walmart buys Flipkart, Pegas launches Ape Rider bike sharing scheme

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Carrefour Romania rebrands the website and launches the marketplace Carrefour Romania has made a rebranding of the online store, the old site www.carrefour-online.ro being transformed into www.carrefour.ro/supermarket. The new online supermarket delivers to customers in Bucharest and neighboring areas, in two hours: food, beverages, detergents, cosmetics, or baby care products. On this occasion, Carrefour also introduces a Marketplace platform, the first such platform of a food retailer in Romania, called Carrefour and Partners, where for the time being there are available around 140,000 products in different categories. → Read more at Retail & FMCG Walmart buys Flipkart, India’s biggest online retailer Global retail giant Walmart has paid $16bn (£11.8bn) for a majority stake in Flipkart, India’s biggest online retailer, making this the world’s largest ever e-commerce acquisition. Walmart, best known for its grocery stores, discount department stores and hypermarkets, is ubiquitous in the US. But its sales have barely grown

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Weekly News: ecommerce world market is 1.85 trillion USD worth, 1st GPeC Trainings edition, VR with Mastercard and Swarovski

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1.85 trillion USD is the forecasted turnover for global e-commerce in 2017 The global ecommerce market continues to flourish in 2017 with a growth rate of 17% and forecasted turnover of $1.85 trillion. Global online retail is increasing rapidly with a forecasted growth rate of 17% in 2017. Asia now ‘owns’ 50% of the global ecommerce market. This is one of the many interesting findings of the Global Ecommerce Report 2017. The report reveals ecommerce trends, facts and figures, and offers insights into each region of the global ecommerce industry.

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Weekly News: Elefant.ro launches a marketplace, Auchan launches online shop, Alibaba launches Smile-to-Pay

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Elefant.ro opens a marketplace Elefant Online, the mother company of Elefant.ro, launched a local software company called Mammoth Software, whose mission will be to manage the future online marketplace, says ZF.ro. This move has been announced this spring by the company’s CEO, Dan Vidrașcu. The firm also provides the necessary development of the platforms elefant.ro and elefant.md. In the future marketplace, the suppliers will set the price, while the retailer will receive a commission for every transaction. According to data from the Official Journal, the retailer recently raised capital worth 44,800 lei, through a new stock infusion.

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