Following widespread publicity about large-scale destruction of returned and unsold goods, Amazon is cleaning up its act by enabling third parties to resell returned products as “used” on Amazon. It’s also offering “Amazon Day” to consolidate orders into a single weekly delivery that minimizes packaging waste, and it is ramping up investment in solar panels and wind farms.

We started fulfillment operations in Guadalajara [Mexico], Santiago [Chile], Bahia [Brazil], and Colombia—and launched a new warehouse in São Paulo [Brazil] and other distribution centers for cargo consolidation and deconsolidation throughout all of Mexico and Brazil. What is Mercado Envíos' commitment to sustainability in Latin America?

Markets with large increases included Brazil (46%), Italy (36%) and the US (29%). In South Korea, for example, ecommerce purchases have driven 68% of the revenues during the pandemic.

The only notable change in that time has been Brazil slowly climbing the ranks from 10th to eighth. By 2024, Brazil will reach sixth, and Mexico will enter the elite ranks at No. 10, bumping South Korea. The Emergence of ByteDance Expands the Ranks of Duopoly Challengers. ByteDance properties Douyin and TikTok have been making waves inside and outside China for several years.

For reference, the most globalized of these 10 companies is Amazon, and we forecast its total worldwide ecommerce sales will equal $416.50 billion this year. China’s second-largest player, JD.com, transacts almost as much inside China as Amazon does globally; and China’s third-largest player, PDD, dwarfs every other American company besides Amazon.

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Going deeper: We expect 2021 to be another year of strong double-digit gains for Latin America’s mcommerce market, with Brazil in the No. 1 spot (34.9%), Mexico in third (31.7%), and Argentina in fourth (30.6%). Brazil and Mexico will be the region’s two largest retail mcommerce markets, representing 57.7% of all retail mcommerce sales in Latin America this year.

The festival is now gaining popularity in countries like Brazil, Spain, and Russia. This year, Alibaba held an offline Singles’ Day event in France for the first time and televised Singles’ Day activities in Spain. Additionally, there are signs that US retailers are warming up to Singles' Day, with at least 100 of them having run deals for the shopping event this year.

Also among the worst performers this year will be the Latin American markets of Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, and Peru and the European markets of France, Italy, and Spain, with double-digit declines expected in their media ad spending growth.

Adults in developing countries (Brazil, the Philippines, South African, Turkey, and Vietnam) were much more likely than their counterparts in developed countries (Australia, France, Singapore, South Korea, the UK, and the US) to say they are either extremely likely and very likely to switch from cash to digital payment in the next 12 months, by a ratio of 76% to 47%, according to a March 2021 survey by

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Moreover, time spent with social actually fell in Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, and the Philippines, to name a few. In many advanced economies—including Germany, Sweden, Spain, the UK, and the US—time spent with PCs and tablets still exceeds time spent with mobile devices, and by a large margin.

Facebook is likely looking to secure its position in India’s competitive and fast-growing ecommerce market, which is dominated by Amazon and Walmart-backed local player Flipkart. As part of the deal, consumers can now place JioMart orders through Facebook-owned WhatsApp. India is WhatsApp’s largest market, with 380.7 million monthly users this year, per our latest estimates. Payments.

In Brazil, where we estimate WhatsApp has 99.8% market penetration among mobile phone messaging app users, a quarter of internet users said the policy changes were an invasion of or disrespectful to their privacy, according to a February 2021 Toluna survey. The survey also found that 13.7% of respondents planned to stop using WhatsApp because of the changes.

In March, Snapchat rolled out its TikTok-like feed, Spotlight, to users in three more countries: Brazil, India, and Mexico. Before the expansion, Spotlight was available to users in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, and France.

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Not surprisingly, Amazon is a key player in the present and future of AI in Europe. Germany in particular is crucial to Amazon, not just as a major regional consumer market, but as a source of brainpower in the battle for AI supremacy. Politico reported in May 2019 that Amazon has several research and development sites in Germany pursuing AI projects, and now employs hundreds of AI experts.

In Brazil, for example, shutdown and quarantine measures were left to city and state officials to decide, while in Argentina, a nationwide lockdown was ordered in March. As of September, some stay-at-home measures were still in place in Buenos Aires, the nation’s capital.

During July’s “big tech” antitrust hearings before the US House of Representatives, CEO Mark Zuckerberg was called to testify virtually, along with the CEOs of Amazon, Apple, and Google. At issue was whether Facebook and the other tech firms were exploiting their market dominance at the expense of smaller companies.

But even as authorities reap the benefits of their expertise and funding, there is renewed concern that some of the largest of the bunch—including Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook—are becoming too powerful.