The Digital Commerce Daily

The Digital Commerce Daily — April 20, 2026 Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today. Hosted by Marco and Klara. Today's fun fact: In 2023, Shein's app was opened an average of 16 times per month per user, nearly double that of Amazon's 8.6 times, making it the most addictive shopping app in the US despite having a fraction of Amazon's product catalog. The secret? Their algorithm drops 6,000 new items daily, creating a slot-machine effect that keeps users checking back compulsively.

The FMCG Marketing Daily — April 19, 2026 Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving fast-moving consumer goods. Hosted by Marco and Klara. Today's fun fact: Costco's $4.99 rotisserie chicken loses the company roughly $40 million per year, but it's deliberately priced as a loss leader and has remained unchanged since 2009. The retailer even built its own $450 million poultry processing facility in Nebraska just to maintain this price point, because the chicken drives such significant traffic and basket size increases.

The Digital Commerce Daily — April 19, 2026 Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today. Hosted by Marco and Klara. Today's fun fact: In 2019, a single typo cost Amazon approximately $30 million in lost revenue. When the word 'Christmas' was misspelled as 'Christmsa' across thousands of product listings during the holiday season, those items became essentially unsearchable, highlighting how critical clean data is even for companies with Amazon's resources.