PARIS: While large traditional retailers announce big lay-offs because of the pandemic, sometimes shedding thousands of staff, coronavirus lockdowns have in contrast given e-commerce a major boost. Hours later, in contrast, online behemoth Amazon said it was hiring 3,500 in the United States. The benefits are being reaped by those companies which were already carrying out a sizeable chunk of their activities online. Following was Germany’s fashion and lifestyle e-commerce heavyweight Zalando, which saw its active customer base rise 20 percent in first half 2020 to 34 million. But the brutal falloff in out-of-home spending has had “a major knock-on effect for non-food commerce dependent on physical sale points,” Gilg said.

Source: Manila Times August 30, 2020 15:11 UTC