The pandemic has accelerated ecommerce growth in the US this year, with online sales reaching a level not previously expected until 2022. In our Q3 US retail forecast, the top 10 retailers by ecommerce sales will tighten their grip on the retail market.

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The world’s largest furniture manufacturer kept prices low by selling flat-packed goods out of its giant stores, all while it was slow to respond to the digital revolution of apps and e-commerce.

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Ruby Has, a leading ecommerce fulfillment company with a national footprint, announces the upcoming move of their Las Vegas fulfillment center to a new 374,000 square foot built-to-suit location, featuring state-of-the-art automation and a sophisticated climate control area ideal for health and beauty brands and other climate-sensitive verticals.

The American retail group said the fresh capital would help Flipkart, which was valued at $20.8 billion two years ago, further grow its e-commerce marketplace in India as the world’s second largest internet market begins to recover from Covid-19 crisis. A group of other existing investors also participated in the new financing round, a Flipkart spokesperson told TechCrunch but declined to identify them individually.

Amazon may have a 15-year head start, but Walmart is close to finally unveiling its own membership program that it hopes will eventually become an alternative to Amazon Prime. Walmart plans to launch a new subscription service later this month called Walmart+ that will cost $98 a year. It will include perks like same-day delivery of groceries and general merchandise, discounts on fuel at Walmart gas stations, and early access to product deals, multiple sources told Recode.

The growth isn’t just due to a large influx of new customers to online grocery, but also due to more frequent orders. Customers may be ordering from online services not only for their large “stocking up” trips, but also for those smaller grocery runs they would often do in between — to grab ingredients for their weekly recipes or to replace the more quickly depleted items, like milk, bread and other staples, perhaps.

This week, Net-a-Porter celebrates its 20th birthday, a milestone moment for a brand that completely transformed the luxury retail landscape when it first launched two decades ago. The revolutionary idea – of selling high-end fashion on the internet – might have been met with skepticism in the year 2000, but led the way for the fashion industry to alter itself dramatically once brands and consumers saw the advantages of the concept.

Facebook Shops represents the natural evolution of Facebook to shore up its leadership in digital advertising by bringing e-commerce capability onto its platform, a strategy it has tried in the past, but not as successfully as expected now after the COVID-19 retail shutdowns.

Stamps.com is the company behind e-commerce platforms ShipStation, ShippingEasy, ShipWorks, Stamps.com and Endicia. It has 740,000 subscribers across these platforms, many of which are considered smaller shippers. As e-commerce shipping speeds up, they may seek to move away from USPS and toward more premium services. Stamps.com ended its exclusive partnership with USPS early in 2019, naming a lack of 2-day service as part of the reasoning.