Hacker News with Generative AI: E-commerce

Fake discounts on Shein 'breach law', EU says (bbc.com)
Fake discounts, pressure selling, and other practices on Chinese fast-fashion website Shein breach the law, the European Union (EU) has said.

EU Law, E-commerce, Fashion, Shein, Consumer Protection

10 points by donohoe 31 days ago | 0 comments

China Parcels (chinaparcels.com)
A universal system for tracking and managing parcels in one place for users in the US and other countries. Now, you have an online assistant tracking and managing orders from the most popular online marketplaces and more than 650 postal and logistics carriers worldwide.

E-commerce, Logistics, Shipping, Tracking, International

4 points by PostTrack 31 days ago | 1 comments

$1M Revenue, $0 Profit: Our D2C Reality Check (indiehackers.com)
Honest intro: I'm not here to sell you some "become a millionaire" course or share get-rich-quick secrets. This is just three people -Fatih, Deniz & Emre(me)- sharing our deepest e-commerce struggles and wins from building a posture correction device brand from literally zero.

E-commerce, D2C, Startups, Business

23 points by emredoganer 32 days ago | 1 comments

Horizon Drive: The Shopify Edition (shopify.com)
Summer ’25 edition

Shopify, E-commerce, Business, Marketing

12 points by sss111 36 days ago | 5 comments

YouTube introduces an interactive product feed for shoppable TV ads (techcrunch.com)
YouTube made its pitch to advertisers on Wednesday, accompanied by a flashy performance from Lady Gaga and special appearances from popular YouTubers like Brittany Broski and MrBeast.

YouTube, Advertising, E-commerce, Video Platforms

6 points by jnord 44 days ago | 1 comments

I built a Next.js boilerplate for P2P and B2C marketplaces – Peerquik (peerquik.com)

Next.js, E-commerce, Open Source, Software Development, Boilerplates

4 points by eliana_jordan 44 days ago | 1 comments

How to buy a chicken sandwich in Shenzhen: China's $100B livestream sales sector (restofworld.org)
Whenever Lu Yanfei wants to eat American fast food, she opens Douyin, China’s TikTok, and switches to the livestreaming channel of McDonald’s China. Onscreen, a fast-talking host hawks fries, sundaes, and chicken sandwiches to hundreds of viewers at a time. “How many babes want to eat this?” a young woman with pigtails asked enthusiastically during a show in April, while waving a plastic model of a vanilla ice cream cone.

E-commerce, China, Food, Social Media

8 points by Geekette 45 days ago | 1 comments

Bringing 3D shoppable products online with generative AI (research.google)
Discover how our latest AI models transform 2D product images into immersive 3D experiences for online shoppers.

Generative AI, E-commerce, 3D Modeling, Computer Vision

45 points by bookofjoe 45 days ago | 22 comments

Backdoor found in popular ecommerce components (sansec.io)
Hundreds of stores, including a $40 billion multinational, are running backdoored versions of popular ecommerce software. We found that the backdoor is actively used since at least April 20th. Sansec identified these backdoors in the following packages which were published between 2019 and 2022.

Cybersecurity, E-commerce, Software Security, Vulnerabilities

45 points by mooreds 47 days ago | 6 comments

Show HN: We Built a Dashboard for Merchants to Track and Optimize Payment Fees (hypersense.io)

E-commerce, Payment Processing, Business Analytics, SaaS

15 points by tarunpitta 49 days ago | 1 comments

The Death of Shopify's Startup Dream, One Layoff at a Time (thewalrus.ca)
“It didn’t feel like a real company,” says Jessica, a former Shopify employee. It was 2016, about a year after Shopify had one of the best-performing tech IPOs in North America.

E-commerce, Business, Layoffs, Startups, Shopify

8 points by ripe 51 days ago | 1 comments

Ask HN: Did Aliexpress stop shipping to US? (ycombinator.com)
I was going to buy a component on Aliexpress and noticed this at checkout: "Item not deliverable to the selected country/region." Did anyone else notice this? Is this because the seller doesn't want to deal with possible customs clearance issues? I have previously bought from this seller without this issue in the past.

E-commerce, Shipping, Aliexpress, United States, Customer Service

27 points by olalonde 53 days ago | 17 comments

E-commerce sites hacked in supply-chain attack (arstechnica.com)
Hundreds of e-commerce sites, at least one owned by a large multinational company, were backdoored by malware that executes malicious code inside the browsers of visitors, where it can steal payment card information and other sensitive data, security researchers said Monday.

Cybersecurity, E-commerce, Malware

7 points by gorbachev 53 days ago | 0 comments

De minimis: US small parcels loophole closes pushing up Shein, Temu prices (bbc.com)
A duty-free loophole for low-value packages has been closed by President Donald Trump, pushing up prices for US customers of firms like Shein and Temu.

International Trade, E-commerce, Retail, Consumerism, Pricing

93 points by colinprince 56 days ago | 136 comments

Ups to cut 20,000 jobs as it prepares to halve Amazon shipments (ft.com)

Layoffs, Amazon, Logistics, Business, E-commerce

12 points by belter 59 days ago | 2 comments

White House Fumes as Amazon Plans to Show Trump Tariff Costs (implicator.ai)
Amazon plans to show customers exactly how much Trump's tariffs inflate their shopping bills. The move sparked immediate backlash from the White House, marking a dramatic shift in the previously warming relationship between Trump and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

Politics, Trade, E-commerce, Amazon, Trump

19 points by marcusschuler 59 days ago | 4 comments

Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers (punchbowl.news)
Amazon doesn’t want to shoulder the blame for the cost of President Donald Trump’s trade war.

Amazon, Tariffs, Trade War, Consumer Costs, E-commerce

449 points by donohoe 59 days ago | 431 comments

Temu adds 145% 'import charges' after Trump tariffs, more doubling some prices (cnbc.com)

E-commerce, Tariffs, Pricing, International Trade

25 points by koolba 60 days ago | 1 comments

Tokyo court fines Amazon Japan ¥35M over counterfeit products (japantimes.co.jp)
The Tokyo District Court on Friday ordered Amazon Japan to pay ¥35 million in damages to a Japanese distributor of a medical device, ruling that the platform’s failure to remove Chinese counterfeit products — which appeared on the site as if they were the same product — led to a loss in sales.

E-commerce, Lawsuits, Counterfeit Products, Japan

7 points by syockit 62 days ago | 3 comments

Amazon Japan ordered to pay 35M. yen for allowing listing of fakes (mainichi.jp)
A Japanese court on Friday ordered the Japanese unit of online retail giant Amazon.com Inc. to pay 35 million yen ($244,000) in damages for failing to take measures to stop sellers from offering fake products on its platform.

E-commerce, Lawsuits, Counterfeiting, Japan

170 points by resonious 63 days ago | 41 comments

Vibe shopping across 35,000 Shopify stores (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.

E-commerce, Shopify, Shopping

4 points by astronautmonkey 72 days ago | 0 comments

Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads (searchengineland.com)
Temu completely shut off Google Shopping ads in the U.S. on April 9, with its App Store ranking subsequently plummeting from a typical third or fourth position to 58th in just three days.

E-commerce, Advertising, Google Shopping, App Store

380 points by rexbee 74 days ago | 691 comments

Are Levi's from Amazon different from Levi's from Levi's? (nymag.com)

E-commerce, Fashion, Retail, Consumerism

162 points by randycupertino 91 days ago | 152 comments

Banned Books: Analysis of Censorship on Amazon.com (2024) (citizenlab.ca)
The rise in online shopping has led to more global reach into markets that may otherwise be inaccessible for companies through traditional retail channels. This increased reach brings new opportunities but also has its own challenges for global e-commerce retailers. One such challenge is in dealing with different, more restrictive regulatory environments worldwide.

Censorship, E-commerce, Book Bans, Amazon, Regulation

104 points by gnabgib 92 days ago | 58 comments

eBay backs WunderGraph to build open source GraphQL federation (techcrunch.com)
A fledgling open source startup that’s setting out to tackle API sprawl in the GraphQL ecosystem has secured the backing of e-commerce giant eBay.

Open Source, GraphQL, Startups, E-commerce

8 points by SlickStef11 92 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: I indexed 25,000 Shopify stores to build an embedded shopping API (searchagora.com)
"My wife asked me for a pair of red shoes for Christmas. I quickly typed it into Google and found a combination of ads from large retailers and links to a 1948 movie called 'Red Shoes'. I decided to build Agora to solve my own problem (and stay happily married)."

E-commerce, APIs, Search Engines, Shopping, Entrepreneurship

9 points by pencildiver 101 days ago | 0 comments

Is Product Search Broken? Why Are We Still Stuck with Ads and Fake Reviews? (ycombinator.com)
I’ve been thinking a lot about how broken product search is today. You type in a query, and the first page is just ads, SEO-optimized blogs, or fake reviews. It feels like the system is designed to waste our time rather than help us.

E-commerce, Product Search, Online Advertising, User Experience, Consumer Behavior

27 points by nicola_alessi 101 days ago | 35 comments

Show HN: Fashion Shopping with Nearest Neighbors (vibewall.shop)
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Fashion, E-commerce, Recommendation Systems, Machine Learning

76 points by unixpickle 104 days ago | 22 comments

Thirty years ago, on March first, 1995, Craig Newmark sent a simple email (gardinercolin.com)
Amazon Surpasses Walmart, Prosus Buys Just Eat Takeaway.com, Booking.com hits $165.6B GBV, David's Bridal to Build a Marketplace and Much More!