The Digital Commerce Daily

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today. Hosted by Marco and Klara.

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  Shein Profits Halve, Amazon & Meta Rebuild Ad Buying With AI

  Sep 29, 20267 min

  Europe's parcel tax just produced its first hard numbers — and Shein's profits are down 50% in six months. Meanwhile Amazon and Meta are both racing to hand ad budget decisions to AI. Here's what that means for your business. In this episode: Shein's operating profit was cut in half in the first half of 2026 after the EU's new parcel tax on low-value shipments forced the ultra-low-cost retailer to raise prices, directly undermining its core competitive advantage in European markets. At its annual unBoxed conference, Amazon Ads launched Full-Funnel Campaigns and an upgraded DVA+ product, collapsing previously separate sponsored ads and programmatic buying into a single agentic AI-driven layer that makes budget decisions autonomously. Meta has extended its Muse AI advertising agent to all roughly 200 million small businesses on its platform, automating campaign creation and optimisation for DTC brands and founders without dedicated media teams. The Digital Commerce Daily is a concise briefing for ecommerce, retail media and digital commerce professionals, hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every day. Enjoying the show? A quick rating or review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify helps other marketers find us. Also from Marco & Klara: The FMCG Marketing Daily · The Health Marketing Daily

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  Shopify Opens Checkout to AI Agents, Amazon Expands to Europe

  Sep 28, 20267 min

  Shopify just rewired its checkout for AI agents — any browser-based agent can now complete a purchase. Plus Adobe's $275B holiday forecast and Amazon threatening Europe's 3PL market. In this episode: Shopify has expanded WebMCP support into its checkout layer, allowing browser-based AI agents to update order details and complete purchases with buyer authorisation — open infrastructure any agent can use, not a single-platform deal. Adobe projects US holiday ecommerce will hit $275 billion in 2026, with AI-assisted discovery and buy-now-pay-later driving growth even as consumers face financial strain — signalling the competitive edge shifts to conversion tools, not reach. Amazon has confirmed its Global Warehousing and Distribution service will launch in Europe before end of 2026, letting brands store inventory with Amazon and distribute across multiple channels — a direct challenge to fragmented European 3PL providers. The Digital Commerce Daily is a concise briefing for ecommerce, retail media and digital commerce professionals, hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every day. Enjoying the show? A quick rating or review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify helps other marketers find us. Also from Marco & Klara: The FMCG Marketing Daily · The Health Marketing Daily

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  DHL Buys Into Eastern Europe, Pieces Opens 45 Stores

  Sep 27, 20267 min

  DHL eCommerce is buying up last-mile carriers across Eastern Europe's fastest-growing markets. And Pieces is opening 45 physical stores in Benelux while rivals go digital-only. Here's what both moves mean for your business. In this episode: DHL eCommerce is actively seeking further acquisition targets across Eastern Europe following its planned purchase of Baltic carrier Venipak, betting that owning last-mile infrastructure outright is the only way to compete in the continent's fastest-growing ecommerce markets. A Practical Ecommerce framework argues that platform-reported ROAS is increasingly unreliable as AI-optimised campaigns claim credit for sales that would have happened anyway — and proposes a brutally simple first check: did total sales and profit actually rise when you increased spend? Bestseller-owned Pieces has opened its twelfth Benelux location in Leuven and is targeting 45 stores across Belgium and the Netherlands, betting that high-street physical presence drives the brand familiarity that converts into repeat online purchases. The Digital Commerce Daily is a concise briefing for ecommerce, retail media and digital commerce professionals, hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every day. Enjoying the show? A quick rating or review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify helps other marketers find us. Also from Marco & Klara: The FMCG Marketing Daily · The Health Marketing Daily

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  JLP Challenges Amazon, Best Buy Bets on AI Conversion

  Sep 26, 20267 min

  John Lewis Partnership is quietly building an ad business to rival Amazon in the UK. Best Buy is using AI not to cut costs but to convert shoppers. And one measurement firm just made its forecasting model free — putting every expensive MMM vendor on notice. In this episode: John Lewis Partnership is building a closed-loop retail media network anchored in first-party data from both Waitrose and John Lewis, giving it a rare cross-category customer profile that few UK retailers can match. Best Buy has outlined a 2026 AI roadmap spanning customer service, product discovery, and logistics — framing artificial intelligence explicitly as an ecommerce conversion tool rather than a cost-cutting measure. A marketing measurement company has open-sourced its marketing mix model forecasting engine, shifting the industry standard from proprietary black-box trust to public validation at a moment when DTC brands are demanding more transparency. The Digital Commerce Daily is a concise briefing for ecommerce, retail media and digital commerce professionals, hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every day. Enjoying the show? A quick rating or review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify helps other marketers find us. Also from Marco & Klara: The FMCG Marketing Daily · The Health Marketing Daily

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  Fanatics Picks Afterpay, AI Agents Attack Shops for $25

  Sep 25, 20267 min

  Fanatics is going all-in on Afterpay as its exclusive BNPL partner — and AI agents are now targeting online shops for just $25 a hit. Two stories every ecommerce operator needs today. In this episode: Fanatics has named Afterpay — owned by Block — as its single preferred BNPL partner across its ecommerce stores, betting on deep checkout integration over a multi-provider menu. Autonomous AI agents can now be deployed to scan and exploit ecommerce shop vulnerabilities for as little as $25 per target, enabling price scraping, inventory manipulation, account takeovers, and checkout fraud at scale. Essendant has sold its Boardwalk, Gen, and Windsoft private-label janitorial brands to ORS Nasco, signalling a strategic retreat to core distribution infrastructure as B2B ecommerce margins tighten. The Digital Commerce Daily is a concise briefing for ecommerce, retail media and digital commerce professionals, hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every day. Enjoying the show? A quick rating or review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify helps other marketers find us. Also from Marco & Klara: The FMCG Marketing Daily · The Health Marketing Daily

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