Retail & Ecommerce

China’s second-largest annual shopping festival broke records last month, generating more sales and attracting more brands than ever before. Held each year around June 18, the 618 promotional event is still smaller than Singles’ Day, but its rising scale reflects a growing appetite for a midyear alternative to the November ecommerce extravaganza.

We recently updated our top 10 list of US retailers by ecommerce sales, but this time, we extended our ranking to the top 15. Together, these 15 companies will account for 72.3% of ecommerce sales in the US this year, up 10.5 percentage points from 2019, largely due to growth seen by Amazon and Walmart.

A new top dog: Andy Jassy, former head of Amazon Web Services, took over the CEO role at Amazon this week. His ascent could lead to deeper connections between Amazon’s cloud storage business and its growing advertising segment.

Social commerce sales in the US are picking up, but the size of the market pales in comparison to that of China, according to eMarketer’s latest forecast on social commerce.

Paytm expanded its BNPL solution with Postpaid Mini and PhonePe launched a digital payment solution for cash on delivery orders—helping expand the country’s digital payment solutions.