Ecommerce Logistician @EcomLogistician

JD.COM is acquiring CECONOMY, the Germany mega retailer that owns MediaMarkt and Saturn, which are like the @BestBuy of Germany for €2.2 billion.

While most media focus on the growth of SHEIN and Temu, TikTok Shop is growing like a weed, but also Chinese eCommerce giants AliExpress, JD, and Taobao are are quietly making huge gains in global markets. Taobao just launched Thailand.

With all the focus on tariffs and de mininis, most people have overlooked that TicTokShop grew by nearly 100% in the US and Globally in H1 of this year to hit $26B worldwide! This puts them on pace to double last years GMV and hit $66.4B !!!

JD Logistics has joined the @UPU_UN Consultative Committee as the latest Goldmember.

Kerry Logistics, a predominately Asia based diversified logistics company, is being rebrand AGAIN to KLN - yet another soulless unremarkable 3 letter acronym. From Kerry > KEX > KLN > FAIL

The trucking industry as a whole, similar to the customs brokerage industry, is being faced with human extinction as AI and autonomous vehicles outperform humans, driving rates down, and forcing all players to similarly replace their human workers.

Do we really care about the true financial and environmental cost, or is it just another opportunity to virtual signal and greenwash? Here's @optoroinc making us feel like villians for the sheer amount of financial and environmental damage that returns is causing.

How many more glass jars and nice containers do I need? Does the fact that everyone is moving to "permanent packaging" mean that we're all filling our homes with forever packaging?

A major supply chain company told me yesterday to delete an authorized post promoting their company …

A ground-breaking research report from the @University of @NotreDame finds that if retailers let their customers keep returns, it increases their brand loyalty and improves the chances that they'll leave a positive review. In plain English - people like free shit.

In an effort to cut costs, @UPS has offered to buyout drivers @ a rate of $1.8K per year, minimum $10K. If you don't remember, UPS drivers became the hottest ticket on Tinder when it came out that they were paid an average of $170K per year.

USPS lost $3.1 billion last quarter. Who benefits the most from the losses?

ZTO Express just handled 9.8 BILLION parcels in a single quarter. Let that sink in. Their Q2 2025 earnings dropped today and they grew 16.5% YoY. While others talk about scale, ZTO is operating on a level that makes even Amazon's look modest.

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