After CEO Jeff Bezos’ 100 million Prime member reveal on Wednesday, Amazon hopes to add to that number with an international focus. Thanks to a new “International Shopping” feature on the Amazon Shopping App, customers from various locations around the world can now shop for approximately 45 million products from the online giant’s U.S. store. […]
Author: Wen Tan
As Americans, we are accustomed to taking the world by storm – a consumerist, more-is-more storm, that is. Conditionally, it is natural for us to hear about American-born brands crossing the Atlantic and saturating the international market. American companies are well loved, and not just by its citizens either – in a recent study conducted […]
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Going Global: B2B E-Commerce
$1.2 trillion dollars. Five years. That is the approximate amount of money expected to be generated by international e-commerce B2B transactions, as estimated by Forrester Research, while the traditional business-to-business environment struggles to keep up with the blistering e-commerce pace of B2C activity. According to a white paper report by DHL Express with the UK’s Cranfield […]
For American based companies looking to explore the vast potential of the Chinese retail market, there might be more obstacles than just providing a superior product. While there are traditional culture differences that occur when companies enter a foreign market, Chinese retail landscape is in some ways different than its American counterpart. For one, the […]
The end of retail as we know it is near. A quick Google search on “retail apocalypse”is all it takes to convince the average consumer that his or her shopping experience is being cannibalized by retailers’ online platforms, and our joyous weekend trips to the mall will soon consist of clicks, not bricks. Or is […]