⭐ Your Ecommerce Coffee Break Newsletter (Issue 141)

Happy Thursday. Top ecommerce platforms just dropped big updates that are shaking up the market. Missed them? Here’s everything you need in one quick digest.

In Today’s Edition:

• What's Happening: Today’s Headlines Handpicked For You!

• 🎧 On the pod: How To Grow Your List Faster Than Any Competitor

• German Regulator Slams Amazon Pricing Rules

Today's newsletter is 546 words—a 2-minute, 43-second read.

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📰 WHAT’S HAPPENING: Today’s Headlines handpicked for you!

General Ecommerce News

• Flipkart invests in “Creator Cities” infrastructure [read more]

• Creative funding methods without banks [read more]

• DHL, Shopify, Google lead May 29 “New Ecommerce Tools” lineup [read more]

• Report: Social commerce to hit $2.9 trillion as platforms become full storefronts [read more]

• Walmart says drones cut delivery times to 30 minutes [read more]

Platforms & Marketplaces

• DHL integrates with Shopify for shipping [read more]

• New AI-Assisted Managed WordPress Hosting For Ecommerce [read more]

• Amazon adds a new daily fee to “Deals” promotions starting June 2 [read more]

• Shopify unveils Direct Plus sales and an exclusive reseller program for partners [read more]

• Pacvue rolls out TikTok Shop advertising integration for unified discovery-commerce management [read more]

Social Media & Advertising

• Meta plans fully automated AI ads [read more]

• Social media reshaping retail in 2025 [read more]

• Meta shocks retail world unexpectedly [read more]

• Gary Vaynerchuk predicts live social shopping will dominate Western retail [read more]

• TikTok ends free traffic on Shop, pushing sellers toward paid ads [read more]

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🔥 GERMAN REGULATOR SLAMS AMAZON PRICING RULES

Germany’s Bundeskartellamt says Amazon’s price-cap tools abuse market power, sidelining sellers that break its limits.

Why it matters:

Amazon owns ~60% of Germany’s e-commerce. When it sets prices, rivals — including those on its marketplace — can’t compete fairly.

Details: Listings above Amazon’s hidden caps are flagged, demoted or deleted. Regulator calls that “highly questionable” because Amazon also sells competing goods. Amazon says the caps surface the best deals for shoppers.

Next: Amazon has weeks to rebut before potential orders to loosen rules in Europe’s biggest economy.

Bottom line: EU watchdogs are tightening screws on digital gatekeepers; Amazon’s pricing playbook is squarely in sight.

Act: Forward this to marketplace sellers tracking the case. [Continue Reading…. ]

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