Prime Day will be held on June 21 and 22, Shopee clears out inactive products

Prime Day is rumored to be on June 21 and 22

According to reports, Amazon is expected to hold the 2021 Prime Day shopping event as scheduled, and the promotion will be held on June 21 and 22. In addition, according to a person familiar with the matter, Amazon has notified employees of the date of the promotion and asked employees to keep the information confidential until the official announcement of the event date in the next few days.

Shopee cleans up inactive products

According to foreign media reports, in order to improve the shopping experience of buyers, the Shopee platform will start to clean up inactive products from today. Inactive products refer to products that have been created for more than 60 days and have no valid orders in the past 360 days. It is reported that deleted inactive products will not generate penalty points.

AliExpress holds "G100 Overseas Plan" brand signing ceremony

On May 27, the brand signing ceremony of the 2021 AliExpress "G100 Overseas Plan" was held in Shenzhen today. At the meeting, AliExpress released a series of measures to help Chinese brands with advantageous supply chains go overseas this year. It plans to establish direct and in-depth supply relationships with 100 "super brands", support 10,000 emerging brands, and sign contracts with ten brand merchants on the spot. It is reported that the "G100 Overseas Plan" aims to help Chinese companies and Chinese brands give full play to their supply chain advantages, establish brand awareness in overseas markets, and expand new markets and new users.

PayPal to allow users to withdraw cryptocurrencies to third-party wallets

According to foreign media reports, PayPal Vice President Jose Fernandez da Ponte said that PayPal will allow users to withdraw cryptocurrencies to third-party wallets. This means that PayPal and Venmo users can not only send Bitcoin to users within the platform, but also withdraw it to platforms such as Coinbase and external cryptocurrency wallets. PayPal has not yet disclosed when it will open the cryptocurrency withdrawal function.

JD.com International is reportedly recruiting merchants to build independent Shopify sites

On May 27, media reported that the "JD International Internal Talent Demand" document showed that the "Shopify Project Group" under JD's "International Affairs and Strategic Development Department" (a first-level department) is recruiting. Specific positions include merchant operations, product strategy, export service provider management, ecosystem management, product managers, etc., and the work location is Beijing. A person close to JD revealed that JD is not building a website building SaaS platform by itself, but uniting a group of merchants to enter the Shopify independent station ecosystem and gradually export supply chain resources. However, JD responded that it would not comment on the "Shopify Project" of JD International.

German consumers' shopping confidence improves

According to Reuters, the latest data released by GfK show that as the COVID-19 epidemic has eased, Germans are more optimistic about their income situation and overall economic development. Their shopping confidence will increase in the next month. Most Germans said that they will shop a lot after the epidemic is over.

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