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COVID-19 epidemic expected to lead to record growth of e-commerce market in 2020
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COVID-19 epidemic expected to lead to record growth of e-commerce market in 2020

In 2020, the e-commerce market in Poland will boast the highest growth figure for approximately a decade, and this will, combined with low forecasts for total retail sales, result in a significant increase in the proportion represented by online sales. Furthermore, the market will grow at a double-figure rate over the next three years, according…

Alibaba generated as much sales during first hour of Singles’ Day as Polish e-commerce market in a year
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Alibaba generated as much sales during first hour of Singles’ Day as Polish e-commerce market in a year

Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant, reported more than USD 38bn (PLN 148bn) in sales on this year’s Singles’ Day. During the first hour alone, sales via the platform amounted to USD 13bn or about PLN 50bn, i.e. the value of the entire Polish e-commerce market in 2018 according to PMR estimates. Alibaba Singles’ Day sales…

Delivery Hero acquires Glovo and sells stake in major courier company Rappi
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Delivery Hero acquires Glovo and sells stake in major courier company Rappi

Early in January 2022, the German Delivery Hero firm announced that it had inked a deal to buy a 39.4% share in the Spanish delivery app Glovo. Following the deferral of the Glovo purchase, in less than two weeks, the business announced the sale of a $150m share in Colombian courier Rappi. Early in January 2022,…

4F joins the list of retailers that offer second-hand clothing
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4F joins the list of retailers that offer second-hand clothing

4F debuts the Wear_Fair zone with second-cycle clothing as part of the 4F Change initiative, which aims to develop the circular economy model. It will be sold in the brand’s unit in the Arkadia Shopping Center. The company will restore old clothes to their former glory and shine and offer them in their first such unit…

InPost provides parcel machines for OLX under a 5-year strategic partnership agreement
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InPost provides parcel machines for OLX under a 5-year strategic partnership agreement

InPost and OLX have entered into a strategic partnership in terms of logistics of parcels available for users of the classifieds website OLX. The agreement was signed for 5 years. InPost has reached yet another crucial strategic cooperation. “We work with virtually all of Poland’s online sales platforms. Because deliveries to our parcel machines are…

Allegro to implement visual search ?
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Allegro to implement visual search ?

Allegro is working on a new feature for its mobile app. The visual search engine analyzes the item seen in the photo provided by the user and then discovers comparable goods on the allegro.pl website using a machine learning algorithm. The consumer does not have to visit the store and photograph the object. Pictures of…

Bolt Market joins the range of Polish q-commerce players
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Bolt Market joins the range of Polish q-commerce players

In Warsaw, the Bolt Market service has begun offering instant delivery. Bolt’s couriers will transport not just food but also non-food items to consumers in the capital, such as COVID-19 serological testing. This is yet another company that has jumped on the q-commerce bandwagon in Poland.  Bolt Market is now available in the capital only,…

PMR: Demographic crisis – the main challenge for the children’s products market in Poland in 2021
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PMR: Demographic crisis – the main challenge for the children’s products market in Poland in 2021

In 2020, the children’s products* market in Poland was worth PLN 14.49bn after a 2.3% y/y decrease, according to the latest PMR report „Children’s products retail market in Poland 2021. Market analysis and development forecasts for 2021-2026”. More than half (54%) of respondents (i.e. people who buy baby products) of PMR’s September 2021 survey, declare…

Zabka Jush expands outside Warsaw
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Zabka Jush expands outside Warsaw

Zabka Jush, the new application and service of 15-minute express delivery of purchases to the home or office, has expanded outside the capital. Now it is also available to the residents of Gdansk – second location, after Warsaw, where the chain launched the new project in the beginning of November 2021. Warsaw inhabitants can already use it,…