Retail Marketplaces – Thematic Research

Online Retail Market Overview

The rise of shopping on online marketplaces has considerably altered the traditional shopper journey. Online marketplaces have become increasingly popular shopping destinations in recent years, primarily thanks to wide product catalogs and shoppers perceiving marketplaces as offering low prices. Selling on marketplaces is also becoming more popular among independent retailers, as they offer a wide customer reach and relatively lower fixed costs. The COVID-19 pandemic has also changed consumption habits, with shopping at online marketplaces becoming more frequent.

The retail marketplaces thematic intelligence report provides a briefing on the theme with a detailed analysis of market opportunity, and factors driving its development and adoption. The report also presents key technology, macroeconomic, consumer, regulatory, and industry trends impacting the theme. The industry analysis section discusses early use cases of retail marketplaces.

Key Trends

The main trends shaping the retail marketplaces are classified into five categories: technology trends, macroeconomic trends, consumer trends, regulatory trends, and industry trends.

• Technology trends: The key technology trends impacting the theme are AR, conversational platforms, experiential technology, mobile, online to offline (O2O), robotics, social commerce, technology expansion/acquisition, rise of the internet super-monopoly, and 5G network advancement.
• Macroeconomic trends: Some of the key macroeconomic trends explained in the report are China, COVID-19 global impact, growth in mobile spend, growth in online spend, India, and security & safety concerns.
• Consumer trends: The key consumer trends impacting retail marketplaces are fulfilment, payments, shift away from physical formats, and sustainability.
• Regulatory trends: Data privacy, fintech regulation, and tax avoidance are a part of the regulatory trends impacting retail marketplaces.
• Industry trends: The industry trends present in retail marketplaces are conversational platforms, experiential technology, online to offline (O2O), social commerce, and the rise of the internet super-monopoly.

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Retail Marketplaces – Industry Analysis

Various retailers engaged in marketplace operations have completed mergers and acquisitions and partnerships over the past few years. Many retailers have the aim to improve their retail proposition.

Retail marketplace analysis also covers:

• Key use cases
• Timeline

Retail Marketplaces - Value Chain Analysis

GlobalData’s retail marketplace theme is split into three components: contributors, components, and user experience.

Contributors: The contributors are various parties that interact with marketplaces. They can be anyone from brands/retailers to technology providers or fulfillment partners. Due to the increasing ways in which consumers are demanding convenient shopping experiences from marketplaces, all these parties have become important parts of the value chain.

Retail Marketplaces Value Chain

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Leading Companies in the Retail Marketplaces Theme

Some of the leading companies making their mark within retail marketplaces theme:

• Amazon
• Best Buy
• eBay

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Retail Marketplaces Sector Scorecard – Retail Marketplaces Theme

At GlobalData, we use a scorecard approach to predict tomorrow’s leading companies within each sector. Each sector scorecard has three screens:

• The thematic screen ranks companies based on overall leadership in the 10 themes that matter most to their industry, generating a leading indicator of future performance.
• The valuation screen ranks our universe of companies within a sector based on selected valuation metrics.
• The risk screen ranks companies within a particular sector based on overall investment risk.

Retail Marketplaces Sector Scorecard – Thematic Screen

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Retail Marketplaces Overview

Scope

This report provides:

• Insight into the business framework of marketplaces within the retail sector.
• Overview of the business model of retail marketplaces and calls out the players who are leading in retail marketplaces’ space, while also highlighting technology, macroeconomic, industry, and regulatory trends set to impact the retail industry over the next 12 to 24 months.
• Highlights of how the marketplaces’ concept is being utilized by brands and provides specific brand examples while also reviewing mergers and acquisitions and strategic partnerships associated with the retail marketplaces theme.

Reasons to Buy

• Provides an overview of the business model of marketplaces, including its origins, advantages, and timeline within the retail market.
• Provides an overview outlining the issues faced by the retail sector as a consequence of COVID-19.
• Gain insight into players engaging with marketplaces and identify the leading retailers/brands within this space.
• Better understand the key trends ­ – including technology, macroeconomic, regulatory and industry trends – impacting the retail market over the next 12 to 24 months.
• Learn about specific examples of retailers/brands adopting the business model of marketplaces and various marketplace-related mergers and acquisitions within the retail space.