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Total Retail Sales of Consumer Goods Grew by 1.1% from January to September 2026

Official industry reference index; publication dates differ from statistical periods; please read the original text for scope of application and detailed data.

Scope 3 Is Not Primarily a Reporting Problem. It Is a Supply Chain Data Problem

Scope 3 is fundamentally a supply-chain data architecture problem. Credibility depends on boundaries, activity data, factor governance, allocation, lineage, and explicit uncertainty—not on a more polished reporting layer. The post Scope 3 I

Borderlands Mexico: US trucking crackdown raises concerns over freight disruptions

This week in Borderlands Mexico: US trucking crackdown raises concerns over freight disruptions; M2 Global Logistics launches in Houston; and Cutter & Buck opens new distribution center in Texas. The post Borderlands Mexico: US trucking cra

Cross-border E-commerce Weekly: Shopify Fully Embraces AI Shopping Agents; SHEIN Continues to Tighten Logistics Controls

Sellers, Check Yourselves Quickly! Another Peak-Season Hit Product Has Blown Up

A weekly infringement roundup.

OpenAI’s API Only Partly Matched ChatGPT’s Citations, Paper Finds via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

A paper tested whether Google results and OpenAI's API can stand in for ChatGPT's citations. They matched cited sites more often than the exact pages. The post OpenAI’s API Only Partly Matched ChatGPT’s Citations, Paper Finds appeared first

Sales surged significantly! Hunan ceramics seller breaks through with Amazon multi-site strategy

Breaking through for growth

Amazon's seller backend can manage multi-platform businesses such as Walmart, drawing attention to data usage

Amazon SPN service provider network adds AI tools category, opens service provider onboarding applications

Shopeeのショップページを整える 購入者が「ここで買いたい」と思う店舗設定の基本

Merchant tutorials published on the Shopee Japan official site, including named authors. Guidance is aimed at Japanese cross-border sellers and is not a binding platform-policy announcement, a profit guarantee or a promise of availability in every market. Follow the original for scope and publication date.

Many factories "have orders but struggle to make money"! Yet Aukey raked in 1.1 billion a year on this platform

Quite a few domestic home furnishing companies have already found a path to break through:

No signs of truckload capacity recovering

Many expected a recovering truckload market after months of rate inflation. The data suggests the opposite. The post No signs of truckload capacity recovering appeared first on FreightWaves.

Google’s Indexing API Docs No Longer Explain How To Get Approval via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google removed the Indexing API approval form and steps from its docs. Default quotas are listed, but the pages don't say how to request more. The post Google’s Indexing API Docs No Longer Explain How To Get Approval appeared first on Searc

What Daimler’s Finance And Global Chiefs Revealed About Diesel, Driverless Trucks, And The Future Of The Industry

On a rainy Saturday morning in Charlotte, inside the brand new North American headquarters of Daimler Truck Financial Services, four of the company’s senior leaders traded the usual press-conference script for something closer to a fireside

Supply Chain Sustainability Software Is Moving From Disclosure to Operational Decision-Making

Sustainability technology is moving from disclosure infrastructure toward operational decision support. Carbon and ESG data become strategically relevant only when they change sourcing, transportation, facility, product, or supplier decisio

Rank Tracker Data, ChatGPT Tags & AI Search Links – SEO Pulse via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

A rank tracker logged Google pages missing their usual sites, some ChatGPT links lost tracking tags, and Google and Bing changed AI search links. The post Rank Tracker Data, ChatGPT Tags & AI Search Links – SEO Pulse appeared first on Searc

Amazon DSP for New to Brand Growth Backed by SellerApp 2026 Benchmark Data

Amazon DSP for New to Brand Growth is about more than driving another purchase. New to Brand, or NTB, measures purchases from customers who have not bought from your brand on Amazon within the previous 12 months, making it one of the cleare

From 651 people to 4 people! Another veteran major factory in Shenzhen enters bankruptcy liquidation

Weekly major events roundup.

E-commerce Weekly Report: Double 11 Shopping Festival Kicks Off in Full Force; WeChat Launches Short Drama Platform; Three Sheep's Comeback Countdown

Luxury Shoppers Put Their Money Where Their Feet Are

A banana-shaped heel is an unusual place to look for evidence of consumer spending discipline. But in luxury retail, financial restraint can apparently come with very adventurous footwear. There’s growing interest in eccentric designer shoe

Shenzhen factory sellers are making a fortune overseas by "borrowing Hong Kong to go global" plus AI

Mainland enterprises' strength combined with Hong Kong's advantages is aggressively winning orders overseas.

Why Depop is putting music at the center of its marketing, collaborating with Zara Larsson and Olivia Rodrigo

Peer-to-peer resale platform Depop is trying to differentiate itself from the competition through the power of music. To date, it has collaborated on drops with the likes of Kacey Musgraves, Zara Larsson and Olivia Rodrigo.

Overseas-expanding company Transsion Holdings listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, with net profit up 46% year-on-year last year

Anker sold 63.62 million in a year! This new platform opens up to domestic entities for onboarding

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