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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Chinese eCommerce platform Pinduoduo plans to raise up to $5.6 But a China-based analyst told the Financial Times that while the Chinese were frequent shoppers of agricultural goods, which would help boost Pinduoduo’s user numbers, the business was low-margin. Last week, the company reported a third-quarter net loss of $115.6

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MAY 27, 2020

FedEx has been seeing an upheaval of its business and may have to tap into debt to make up for the dearth of the usual high-profit business shipments. The Memphis-based delivery company has instead seen a massive upswing in low-margin personal home deliveries as people start to shift to eCommerce during the pandemic.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The first big news over the wires was official confirmation that the eCommerce giant will open an Amazon branded grocery store next year in California. Loss of the Week: Nike Says So Long to Amazon . The move ends a two-year eCommerce partnership between the two brands. Worry of the Week: Buttressing the Full eCommerce Offering.

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AUGUST 23, 2018

The core eCommerce business showed robust growth, while the company still seeks diversification away from that line, which includes online retail sites Tmall and Taobao. Though not explicitly broken out in filings by Alibaba, The Wall Street Journal estimated that pre-tax profit at the unit slumped to 2.4 Moving Beyond eCommerce.

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

The number of shares and the pricing have not yet been released. . Pets are anticipated to stay popular, with the number of households with pets going up 4 percent in 2020 alone. The pet retail chain is also moving towards profitability after net losses the past two years. Same-store sales surged 9.6 percent this year.

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

With a whopping 10 percent fewer customers, if early numbers are any indicator — but maybe those shoppers were just trying it out? That’s a more substantial loss than Target, Costco, Aldi, Stop & Shop, and Kroger suffered – combined. However, the good news for Trader Joe’s and others is that the initial numbers didn’t hold.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

GameStop said on an earnings call that it’s going to close somewhere between 180 and 200 stores in an effort to expand its profitability, which has been dwindling in the digital age as customers buy fewer physical copies of games, according to a report by CNBC. 10) after the company reported the losses.

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MAY 11, 2017

By The Numbers . The online home goods retailer also beat out earnings per share estimates by $0.10, posting a loss of $0.48 That Lingering Profit Problem. They are showing no path toward profitability whatsoever,” Left said. Wayfair’s net revenue hit $960.8 million, up 28.6 eps for the Q1 2017 quarter.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Are media buyers burning through budgets at the last minute just to preserve them for a better shot next year, or will the ad rebound collectively help recoup 2020 losses with holiday sales? did strong Q3 numbers, with PYMNTS reporting that “Alphabet said search and other advertising revenues rose 6 percent year over year to $26.3

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JULY 30, 2020

The Texas-based beauty supplier reported on Thursday (July 30) that its losses were partially offset by a surge in online sales and the opening of its shops from mid-April through the end of June. eCommerce sales were $137 million for Q3, a 278 percent increase from the prior year. percent for Q3. percent as operations restarted.

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DECEMBER 24, 2020

The company also reported a $23 million profit for the second quarter — its first black ink in history. For instance, the company’s S-1 filing showed that net losses attributable to common shareholders rose to $176 million through 2020’s first nine months – way up from just $12 million during the same period last year.

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MAY 13, 2019

Shares in African eCommerce company Jumia Technologies took a dive on Monday (May 13) after Q1 losses were reported to be bigger than the year before, according to a report from Bloomberg. It also claimed that Jumia inflated its active merchant numbers and its active customer base. million euros, from a loss of 34.3

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AUGUST 16, 2018

The planet’s largest retailer by sales crushed their way through Q2, with bigger than expected gains in revenue, earnings, same-store sales and eCommerce sales than analysts were predicting before the numbers hit the wires. The headline number was the highly watched same-store sales figure. All-in revenue jumped up 3.8

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OCTOBER 2, 2020

For eCommerce, Americans spend about $617 a year in the electronics and appliance categories, which accounts for the highest percentage of spend at 23.3 That means it doesn’t fit into Walmart’s everyday low price model – but it does fit Amazon, which doesn’t have to use it as a loss leader. The Strange Case of Walmart+ Numbers.

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APRIL 16, 2020

For example, Thinknum , which tracks eCommerce retail, found that in January, Lululemon had 1,060 items on sale. According to Edited , the number of new styles posted by U.S. Saks: 10 percent base discount with selected items at 70 percent off. Even brands that are usually immune to discounting have had to play. In the U.K.,

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AUGUST 9, 2017

In the eCommerce landscape, conventional wisdom tends to the idea that Amazon’s gravity in digital commerce is so overpowering that it is all but impossible for any entity smaller than Walmart to ever meaningfully compete against them. By The Numbers . Wayfair is still reporting losses as opposed to profit.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Today’s move is most likely a reaction to the need for Walmart to get a private label brand in its online store to compete with department stores, which will be under pressure to sell at full-price this holiday season to keep revenue numbers as high as possible. But it has had issues in the category. billion in the apparel category and $48.3

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AUGUST 17, 2018

“We’re pleased with how customers are responding to the way we’re leveraging stores and eCommerce to make shopping faster and more convenient. By The Numbers. Walmart reported a net loss of $861 million (29 cents a share) for the quarter end on July 31, compared with a net income of $2.9 Beyond The Numbers.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

New online holiday shopping projections from Adobe have found that eCommerce in the United States during that period will increase 14.8 The number of consumers in the study who reported owning a voice-activated device nearly doubled from last year to this year — with 27 percent owning one, up from 14 percent in 2017. 26 to hit $7.7

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DECEMBER 31, 2019

Yet, as Karen Webster pointed out at the time, the story isn’t just in the absolute numbers, and who leads whom at any moment in time. percent as of 2019 — PYMNTS’ 2019 numbers are historic, trailing 12-month numbers based on data from Q4 2018 through Q3 2019. Amazon was a close second, accounting for 5.8 percent of U.S.

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MARCH 11, 2020

Its problems started with its first earnings report in August 2019, after the company reported net losses. The whims of the market hit the company in Q3 when it posted solid numbers but still took a hit on the price. Quarterly sales grew 22 percent year over year, net profits rose 34 percent, and adjusted EBITDA grew 40 percent.

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AUGUST 6, 2020

The revenue is an increase of 13 percent from last year, and the number of cars sold is an increase of 25 percent year over year. The company’s total gross profit in Q2 was $150 million, a 9 percent increase, and the net loss sat at $106 million, an increase of 66 percent, the letter stated. ”

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APRIL 28, 2017

Eight straight quarters of profits seem to have finally shaken off its reputation for being the world’s most successful company that failed to post a profit after 18 years in business. By The Numbers. “The core eCommerce segment remains very healthy,” said Colin Sebastian, an analyst at Baird Equity Research.

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OCTOBER 2, 2018

Startup notches mounting losses, because as everyone knows, you’ve got to spend money to make money. But profitability looks elusive, and becomes less a question of “when?” 1, the company said that pre-tax losses for last year were 185 million pounds, up from 129 million pounds in the previous year. Startup gains top line.

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OCTOBER 30, 2018

It was only about two months ago — August, in fact — when the prediction came out: Amazon , the eCommerce operator that had recently made moves into healthcare, deepened its power in grocery and continued to grow in other parts of retail (and cloud computing), would hit $2.25 trillion in market capitalization by 2024. That’s not all.

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MAY 19, 2017

While the Chinese eCommerce giant’s international presence to date is relatively small, that fact looks to change in just a few short years. Revenue from the company’s core eCommerce business was up 47 percent to 31.57 Pre-market trading saw value tending toward a loss of 3 percent. billion yuan ($5.6

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JULY 31, 2017

Now that eCommerce has been in effect for nearly 20 years, several retailers are finding themselves facing a tough decision. To help maintain profits, or sometimes in order to keep from going bankrupt, retailers are either shutting down a slew of stores or closing up shop all together. As we reported last week, 53 percent of all U.S.

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JULY 28, 2017

Still, with Amazon’s big moves stacking on top of bigger moves this summer, it might have been easy to believe that a thousand was all the eCommerce retailer knew how to bat. By the Numbers. But that big pick-up in sales came along with a drop-off in profitability. Amazon’s earnings per share clocked in at $0.40 What’s Next.

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MARCH 26, 2019

Failure to plan adequately for cross-border funds transfers between subsidiaries or to suppliers, for instance, may result in money converted at a different exchange rate than was initially accounted for, creating “erratic” profit and loss (P&L) variations that could have been avoided with a proper hedging strategy, explained Descout.

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JANUARY 18, 2020

Cybercriminals and their consistently advancing efforts to make off with and illegally profit from pilfered consumer data get all kinds of press — but not every criminal organization targeting retailers is doing it from behind a computer screen and trolling for ill-gotten data. These criminal gangs are sophisticated.”.

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MAY 7, 2018

More retailers are adopting the view that closing stores isn’t a failure or a loss, but simply a pathway to greater success. This modest debt could, if necessary, be paid off with one year’s net profits, providing a very effective buffer against the likely interest rate rise in the coming years.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2019

The problem with large investments – the type that run into the billions of dollars – is that just as gains can be astronomical, the losses can be devastating. There are any number of tech unicorns that have been grounded post-IPO, among them Slack , Lyft, Uber and Peloton. WeWork never made it to market.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Taking a look at the latest earnings numbers that were announced by a few major chains yesterday (Feb. What is arguably among the hottest “trends” in retail right now is far from a positive one for the brick-and-mortar area of the industry.

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JULY 12, 2018

“India is one of the most attractive retail markets in the world, given its size and growth rate, and our investment is an opportunity to partner with the company that is leading transformation of eCommerce in the market,” said Walmart CEO Doug McMillon in a statement at the time.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

And major expenditures, especially in shipping and logistics , have certainly cut back on Amazon’s net profits. “Amazon has confirmed today that, in the fourth quarter, it will open a new logistics eCommerce center in Sosnowiec,” the company said in a statement on Monday. billion in 2007 to $136 billion in 2016.

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MARCH 24, 2016

While social media platforms, if utilized effectively , can be beneficial for any retail business, those with an established brand obviously have a leg-up — in terms of financial assets, infrastructure and reach — on more nascent companies in their ability to quickly turn social presence into profit. and are increasing sales as a result.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Singles’ Day is for Lovers (of Global eCommerce) : The record set last year for Alibaba’s Singles’ Day gets crushed with this year’s $25 billion in transactions (1.4 But the larger sizzle here is eCommerce, truly transacted across borders, stretching through the U.S., billion of them). Australia and Germany.

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