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This week on the Digital Shelf Insider, host Shreshta Joy is in conversation with Ingrid Lommer, Co-Founder of Marketplace Universe and one of Europe's most deeply embedded e-commerce researchers.

While most digital commerce conversations focus on the US, Ingrid sheds light on a seismic shift in Europe's marketplace landscape that brand leaders cannot afford to ignore.

Post-COVID category retailers are eating into Amazon's dominance. Re-commerce platforms like Vinted are overtaking traditional fashion destinations. Temu and Shein have captured a low-price segment that legacy retailers abandoned entirely. And the race to make product data AI-readable is splitting European retailers into winners and losers before the agentic era even fully arrives.

In this episode:

(00:00) Trailer

(00:54) Introduction

(02:01) Meet Ingrid Lommer: Co-Founder of Marketplace Universe

(02:23) Category Retailers vs Amazon in Europe

(05:27) European Consumer Price Sensitivity

(07:47) Cross-Border Commerce & the Re-Commerce Boom

(10:38) Agentic AI Readiness Across Europe

(12:54) Brands and GEO Visibility

(14:59) Optimizing Product Data for AI Agents

(18:19) TikTok Shop and Social Commerce in Europe

(22:30) Outro

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