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Trade Union Ver.di Calls Amazon Strike At Seven German Distribution Centres

Trade union Ver.di has called on Amazon workers to strike at seven distribution centres over the online giant's reported refusal to enter into collective b...

E-Commerce To Account For Half The Growth In Global Retail By 2025

E-commerce is set to account for half the growth in global retail by 2025, expanding by an additional $1.4 trillion between now and the mid part of the dec...

Will Deliveroo’s IPO Overdeliver Or Underdeliver? Analysis

Does London’s biggest listing in a decade represent value for money? Tech and finance expert Dmytro Spilka explores this in more detail. Deliveroo i...

Amazon Sees Market Share Drop In France As Competitors Ramp Up Operations

Amazon held 19% of the overall online retail market in France last year, down from 22% in 2019, as a wider variety of retailers ramped up their e-commerce...

'Pay With Your Face' Technology Rolled Out In Russian Supermarkets

Russia's X5 Retail Group has rolled out a new technology to a number of its Perekrestok supermarkets that enables customers to pay for their groceries via...

HelloFresh Gearing Up For Life After COVID, Following A Bumper Year

Meal-kit firm HelloFresh said that it expects consumers to 'continue to rely on e-commerce solutions to shop for food' even after the COVID-19 pandemic sub...

Ocado Full-Year Results: What The Analysts Said

Online grocer and technology provider Ocado has posted full-year revenue growth of 32.7%, boosted by a 35.3% increase in revenue in its retail division....

UK's Deliveroo Raises $180m From Investors, Valued At $7bn

British food-delivery company Deliveroo said it raised a further $180 million from existing investors, including minority shareholder Amazon, in a mov...