With the increasing importance of return in online shopping, consumers are tired of packaging their goods and then labeling them for return. A few days ago, it was reported that FedEx will launch the FedEx Consolidated Returns program in 2023, and launch a return service without boxes or labels, that is, consumers do not need to package and print labels, and only use QR codes to deliver the returned goods to FedEx, and then send them back to businesses.

According to the latest report of NPD, high-end perfume once again showed strong sales performance in the US holiday season this year. This category is also the fastest growing high-end beauty category in the US in 2021. According to the retail tracking service of NPD, the sales growth of perfume category during the nine week holiday was partly due to the higher average price plus less discounts. Larissa Jensen, a consultant in the beauty industry of NPD, said that the sales of perfume reached a new height after the epidemic and continued to grow.

More than 158 million consumers will shop on Super Saturdays this year

According to the annual consumer survey results of the National Retail Federation (NRF) and Prosper Insights&Analytics, more than 158 million consumers will shop on the last Saturday (December 17) before Christmas this year, that is, Super Saturday.

This number is about 10 million more than the number of shoppers on Super Saturday in 2021, and it is also the highest number since NRF began tracking this data for the first time in 2016. According to the survey, 44.1 million (28%) of the 158.5 million consumers who plan to shop on super Saturdays plan to shop in stores, 42.2 million (27%) plan to shop online, and 72.2 million (46%) plan to shop in stores and online at the same time.

In recent years, the epidemic has led to the rapid transformation of global consumption patterns and the rapid development of e-commerce industry. The "post-95" has brought amazing sales to the dishwasher, white shoe artifact, shoe washer, floor sweeping robot and other lazy artifact. The hot trend of social media also has a great impact on the market trend. The video about shoe cleaning on TikTok also has a high viewing volume. The video about shoe cleaning released by a blogger has 7.1M views, 917.8K likes, 11.1K reprints, and 2901 comments.

At the end of the year, Dasu started a global carnival of sellers and buyers, while Dasu in the UK was relatively chaotic. According to incomplete statistics by foreign media, from December 1 to 24, there will be only 6 days without strike in the country. In addition to the Royal Mail workers, more than 40000 railway workers, the medical system, the education system, etc., have all broken out in large-scale strikes. This "strike tide" will last until at least January next year. Royal Mail's 115000 workers plan to hold at least seven strikes in December. Royal Mail has cooperation with many e-commerce platforms, which is equivalent to the direct breakdown of nearly half of the delivery services in the UK.

Recently, Amazon Europe announced that in order to comply with French laws and regulations, when selling certain products in France, sellers need to register with Producer Responsibility Organizations (PROs) to obtain a unique identification number (UIN), and pay for the ecological contribution statement when submitting the sales.

According to the announcement, the seller can register PRO independently. If the seller has registered, please submit a valid extended producer responsibility (EPR) UIN on the EPR compliance portal as a compliance certificate for all applicable EPR categories before December 31, 2022.

On December 14, Shopee announced the successful conclusion of its 12.12 birthday. The data showed that during the Double Twelfth Festival, the number of Shopee Live viewers reached a new high of 1.6 billion, and the number of Shopee Prizes game participants exceeded 5 billion. In the Malaysian market, more than 23 million coupons were received. Driven by the overall rising trend, the number of goods sold by several cross-border categories in China has increased by 12 times compared with the daily average, and new cross-border sellers have also taken advantage of the momentum to achieve gratifying results, greatly pushing the number of goods sold that day to exceed millions. On the day of the promotion, the number of goods sold by cross-border Shopee Mall increased to 7 times that of ordinary days. Several domestic brands were listed on the 12.12 Southeast Asian Brand Hot List. Sports outdoor, men's shoes, video entertainment, computers and accessories and other high customer price categories were popular.

Recently, eBay Australia announced that the delivery of some logistics carriers may be delayed due to the surge of packages during Black Friday. In order to avoid the impact on the seller's service index rating, eBay will automatically delete the delayed delivery rate received by the seller during Black Friday. Therefore, eBay will put seller protection measures in place.

Recently, according to the recruitment information on TikTok's official website, TikTok released the recruitment information for 12 positions including Spanish beauty category director, fashion category director and logistics operation director, all of which are located in Madrid. At the same time, an insider of TikTok told the media that TikTok e-commerce was preparing to enter the Spanish market.

Amazon announced that for sellers who store in Amazon's logistics operation center and have a higher inventory volume than their recent weekly sales volume, a storage utilization surcharge will be imposed. Professional sellers whose storage utilization rate is higher than 26 weeks will be affected by this, and the effective date of the change is April 1, 2023.

At the same time, Amazon will charge a surcharge for overage inventory. Increase the surcharge for inventory age of 271-365 days; For inventory aged 180-270 days, an overage inventory surcharge will be levied, excluding the following categories of products: clothing, footwear, bags, jewelry and watches. The change will take effect on April 15, 2023.

Second, Amazon will increase the storage fees for reading inventory. Storage fees in off peak season (January to September): increase by 0.04 dollars per cubic foot of standard size goods; Large items will increase by 0.03 dollars per cubic foot.

Storage fee in peak season (October to December): the cost of sortable goods will remain unchanged; $0.20 per cubic foot for non sortable large merchandise. The change will take effect on February 1, 2023.