Amazon must also indicate origins of fruit and vegetables
Every local supermarket must inform its customers where the fruit and vegetables on its shelves have come from. But this is not possible with online delivery, Amazon claimed in court. And now it is paying the price. The law applies to everyone - and therefore online retailer Amazon must also inform its customers about the country of origin when they order fresh fruit and vegetables, just like the supermarket around the corner and the trader at the weekly market. This was made clear by the Munich Higher Regional Court, which confirmed a ruling by the Munich Regional Court.
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BERLIN, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) Nominal sales in Germany s retail sector last year increased by 5.1 percent year-on-year despite the COVID-19 crisis, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) announced on Monday.
Sales in December only increased by 2.6 percent year-on-year, according to Destatis. Due to high COVID-19 infection rates in Germany, the country intensified its COVID-19 lockdown in mid-December, including the closure of most retail shops in Germany. The different sectors of the retail industry performed very differently in December, depending on whether and to what extent they were affected by the restrictions, Destatis said.
2021-01-26 15:05:29 GMT2021-01-26 23:05:29(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
BERLIN, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) Gross revenues of goods in e-commerce in Germany in 2020 went up 14.6 percent year-on-year and reached 83.3 billion euros (101 billion U.S. dollars), the German E-Commerce and Distance Selling Trade Association (bevh) announced on Tuesday.
Despite stagnation in the first quarter, the increase was 3.3 percentage points above the average growth rate in the previous three years, according to bevh. In Germany, around one in eight euros of household expenditure on goods were spent online. The coronavirus pandemic has significantly accelerated the development of retail towards e-commerce, said Gero Furchheim, president of the association, in a statement.
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