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As US regulators ease Big Tech scrutiny, the UK is intensifying investigations into Apple and Google鈥檚 duopoly, potentially reshaping how these companies operate abroad.

Ecommerce鈥檚 share in both the UK and South Korea has been backtracking recently, and share growth in most other countries has become very gradual. But Indonesia is booming, thanks at least in part to homegrown digital retailers like Tokopedia, Bukalapak, and Blibli. Ecommerce鈥檚 share of retail will hold steady or increase in every country this year except the UK, Chile, and Hong Kong.

Social commerce is gaining momentum in the UK鈥攚ith sales set to double by 2028鈥攁s major brands join TikTok and as more people shop on social platforms.

Amazon can stake a claim as one of Canada鈥檚 top mass merchants, even without having physical stores. It has reached this milestone after more than three years of accelerated retail ecommerce in the country.

Alibaba, Amazon, and Mercado Libre dominate retail ecommerce in different parts of the world. Here鈥檚 a look at how these marketplaces stack up, in seven charts and graphics.

It鈥檚 a different story in the UK. Although food inflation is also driving up grocery ecommerce sales in the UK, the number of people buying groceries online will fall 2.9% to 29.5 million in 2023 as older shoppers return to stores. That means grocery will lose share of digital buyers, although at 61.1% it remains much higher in the UK than in France or Germany. What are the implications?

The cost-of-living crisis is forcing UK consumers to change where they shop to save money. To attract and keep customers, retailers and brands across all sectors need to invest in loyalty programs鈥攁nd understand what shoppers want from them.

TikTok is primarily banking on countries in Southeast Asia to reach its objective, but it鈥檚 not giving up on the US: In May, the Financial Times reported that TikTok had restructured its ecommerce business to focus on the US and the UK. The US is the world鈥檚 second-largest social commerce market after China, generating $68.92 billion in sales this year, per our estimates.

And Meta, Google, and Amazon have built out the financial services they offer, although have all taken very different approaches. Our hyper-personalization prediction: We foresaw that new players would build hyper-personalized experiences to help consumers take control of their finances.

The pandemic accelerated investment in CX technology to meet rapidly changing needs. But as consumer priorities shift again amid high inflation, UK retailers need to understand which technologies are hitting the mark and which are not.

Total media time is flattening out in the UK after the artificial bump brought about by the pandemic. Video consumption, though, via multiple platforms, is one area where marketers can count on continued consumer engagement.

UK consumers have a voracious appetite for digital video content, but the cost-of-living crisis is boosting ad-supported options, particularly broadcaster video-on-demand services. Netflix鈥檚 pivot to an ad tier, meanwhile, may have legs.

US grocery ecommerce sales will grow 17.4% in 2024 to total $219.04 billion, according to our forecast. Meanwhile, UK grocery ecommerce sales will grow only 5.1% to total $37.06 billion in 2024. 鈥淎t the end of the day, consumers in the US enjoy the conveniences of delivery, but they鈥檙e not necessarily willing to pay an exorbitant fee,鈥� said our analyst Blake Droesch, emphasizing the perceived value of Walmart+ and Amazon Prime memberships to these shoppers.

For example, hundreds of UK Amazon workers on Wednesday staged their first-ever strike. The retail giant failed to 鈥済ive workers a proper pay rise,鈥� said Stuart Richards, senior organizer of the GMB Union, in a statement. Amazon in December had offered workers a 50 pence-per-hour increase in pay.

Zara bets on live shopping following China success: The fast-fashion retailer is expanding its live commerce capabilities to the US, UK, and Europe.

We'll start with our first question, and we're going to start with the Just Walk Out data from Amazon itself. The tech, as we mentioned, it's not exclusive to Amazon Fresh Stores, Amazon licenses it to many third parties. But according to the company, how many third party locations globally employ this technology? So we have 44, 140, or 500, they're your options. I'll ask you the question.