Hacker News with Generative AI: E-commerce

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 2 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 3 days ago | 16 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 4 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 7 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 10 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 10 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 10 days ago | 430 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 11 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 12 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 13 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 23 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 24 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 42 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 43 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 43 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 52 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 52 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 55 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!

E-commerce, Business, Acquisitions, Marketplaces

11 points by predogger 58 days ago | 2 comments

Go European: Discover European products and services (goeuropean.org)

E-commerce, Europe, Shopping

688 points by doener 60 days ago | 383 comments

How the Internet Made In-Store Shopping Miserable (wsj.com)
E-commerce didn’t kill bricks-and-mortar stores, but it made them worse. Much worse.

E-commerce, Retail, Consumer Behavior, Shopping, Online Shopping

8 points by bookofjoe 75 days ago | 2 comments

When They Stop Selling Your Favorite Thing (nytimes.com)
Shoppers are going online to pay dearly for discontinued items, from the perfect lip pencil to Tab.

E-commerce, Consumer Behavior, Nostalgia, Discontinued Products, Marketing

5 points by mikhael 76 days ago | 2 comments

Show HN: I built a Free price comparison tool for Amazon, eBay, and AliExpress (oneclickcompare.com)
Shop Hot Deals at AliExpress!

E-commerce, Price Comparison, Web Development, Amazon, eBay

21 points by krisozy 77 days ago | 10 comments

Chinese Temu sellers use fake U.S. postage labels to boost their profits (restofworld.org)
Some Chinese Temu merchants are padding their profits by using counterfeit postage labels to trick the U.S. Postal Service into delivering packages for free.

E-commerce, Fraud, China, United States, Shipping

12 points by impish9208 87 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Dealswiki is a deals sharing platform you can earn money posting deals (deals.wiki)
Earn now, get 50% of the affiliate commission when you post deals on deals.wiki!

E-commerce, Web Applications, Sharing Economy, Affiliate Marketing

21 points by timothyxyang 87 days ago | 1 comments

Show HN: Built A Better Shopify (that's not a rip off) (gitpage.site)
Save 360+ Hours of Development Time

E-commerce, Shopify, Open Source, Development Tools

14 points by ambitiouz 88 days ago | 9 comments

Platform for supporting local sellers and buyers (blunum.com)

E-commerce, Local Businesses, Marketplaces

15 points by blunum 94 days ago | 12 comments

Show HN: I indexed 10M Shopify products to build an 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, Search Engines, APIs

13 points by pencildiver 95 days ago | 5 comments

A loophole used by Shein/Temu to ship packages to US tax-free (2024) (businessinsider.com)
As Shein and Temu grow their foothold in the US, analysts and lawmakers are paying close attention to both companies' use of a special tax rule that some say should be eliminated completely.

E-commerce, Taxation, International Trade, Business, Law

130 points by donsupreme 96 days ago | 107 comments

Temu, Shein and Amazon to be liable in EU for 'unsafe' or 'illegal' goods (ft.com)

E-commerce, EU Regulations, Consumer Protection, Product Safety

31 points by belter 96 days ago | 1 comments