{"id":7285,"date":"2016-08-18T13:21:41","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T10:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/?p=7285"},"modified":"2016-08-18T13:22:12","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T10:22:12","slug":"news-of-the-week-u-s-e-commerce-on-the-rise-amazon-goes-handmade-macys-shuts-down-brick-and-mortar-shops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/en\/news-of-the-week-u-s-e-commerce-on-the-rise-amazon-goes-handmade-macys-shuts-down-brick-and-mortar-shops","title":{"rendered":"News of the week: U.S. e-commerce on the rise, Amazon goes handmade, Macy’s shuts down brick-and-mortar shops"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Here are the most important news pieces about e-commerce<\/strong> from the last 7 days.<\/p>\n

If you found other news worth being disseminated, send us an e-mail at echipa@gpec.ro<\/strong> or leave a comment below or check us out on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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U.S. e-commerce growing and growing<\/h3>\n

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E-commerce sales grew 15.8% in the second quarter, according to the U.S. Commerce Department, says\u00a0internetretailer.com<\/a>.\u00a0Factoring out the sales of products not normally conducted online, e-commerce accounted for 10.9% of retail sales during the period. The second quarter was a particular bright period for e-commerce in the U.S., according to a report from the U.S. Commerce Department.<\/p>\n

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There’s something about card payments in\u00a0Romania…<\/h3>\n

Card payments are still a low figure in the total online transactions numbers and the shop owners bear a part of the guilt, says Antonio Eram, founder of Netopia. What has to know an online business wich wants to introduce the e-payment, why Romanians don’t pay by card and much more, in this article at\u00a0StarupCafe.ro<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Amazon goes handmade<\/h3>\n

After launching a section for handmade products in the US last year, Amazon is now rolling out its Handmade portal in all five Amazon European marketplaces (Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.it and Amazon.es), saysecommercenews.eu<\/a>. Soon customers can buy and sell handmade products online, similar to websites as Etsy and German marketplace DaWanda.<\/p>\n

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Macy\u2019s shuts down 100 more stores<\/h3>\n

Macy\u2019s plans to close 100 of its 675 department stores following a drop in its profitability. It will use some of those resources to double down on its digital operations and on its best-performing stores reports CMS Wire quoted by Ecommerce IQ<\/a>. Macy\u2019s estimates the annual sales volume it would lose from these 100 stores combined is roughly $1 billion after factoring the revenue it expects to retain due to nearby stores and the web.<\/p>\n

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Here are the most important news pieces about e-commerce from the last 7 days. If you found other news worth being disseminated, send us an e-mail at echipa@gpec.ro or leave a comment below or check us out on Facebook. Thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[478],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-commerce-weekly-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7287,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7285\/revisions\/7287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpec.ro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}