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Single’s Day: Alibaba beat the 2019 sale in less than an hour
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Single’s Day: Alibaba beat the 2019 sale in less than an hour

Alibaba, the leader of the Chinese e-commerce market, has announced that during this year’s Singles Day he sold goods for over $74 bn (GMV). A year ago it was $38 bn, and it is very impressive that the 2019 sale was beaten this year in the first 30 minutes of the sale. This is a…

Skrytka IKEA – a new form of click&collect pickup
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Skrytka IKEA – a new form of click&collect pickup

The IKEA chain has just introduced a new order option in the click&collect system in Poland. Skrytka IKEA has just been installed at the Lodz site. The new delivery method will be available for orders placed via the internet and will allow to collect purchases at the time chosen by the customer. Skrytka IKEA works…

Will InPost be sold?
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Will InPost be sold?

At the end of September Bloomberg announced that Advent International was considering selling InPost, acquired in 2017. A few days ago this information was confirmed by Puls Biznesu. According to the newspaper’s sources, the sales process was to start. One of the main candidates for the acquisition of InPost is Allegro, for whom InPost is…

“Zabkomaty” – new solution for Zabka
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“Zabkomaty” – new solution for Zabka

The design of the parcel machines is ready, currently the machine is being tested in one of the Poznań shops. They’re about to appear in more establishments. Automated collection of shipments The parcel machines will be located inside the shops, so the access hours will be the same as the current opening hours of specific…

Coronavirus increases online shopping comfort
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Coronavirus increases online shopping comfort

After the decision to close non-food stores in shopping malls from 14 March, clothing, footwear and home furnishing chains were forced to move virtually all their activities to the Internet. Thus, retailers introduces further facilities to encourage customers to shop more often. Free deliveries, longer return periods A number of e-shops have introduced free deliveries…

Robotisation in retail & logistics – overview for 2020, part I
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Robotisation in retail & logistics – overview for 2020, part I

As far as saturation with robots is concerned, the Polish market is unfortunately in the tail of the rankings, which is quite surprising if we take into account, for example, Polish GDP (where we have 22nd place in the world) or Human Development Index (Poland with 32nd place in the world). In 2014, roboforum.pl wrote…