James Chen 
Belgian shoppers spent a record €18.3bn online in 2025, up 5.4%, according to the Becom Market Monitor. Yet domestic webshops grew only 3.43%, barely above inflation, as Chinese platforms and foreign marketplaces absorbed most of the new spending.
Shopify Markets lets one store sell into dozens of countries, but the defaults leave conversions on the table. A walkthrough of the currency, duty, and domain decisions that make cross-border orders clear.
Composable commerce sounds like a slide. In practice it is a short list of services a retail team buys, wires together, and pays to run. Here is what the stacks actually contain, what each layer costs, and how to sequence the build so you ship before the budget runs out.
OpenCart in 2026 is cheap to start and expensive to maintain. An honest look at where it fits, where it fails, and when to migrate off.
Squarespace is a fine start, but growing retailers hit hard ceilings on fees, inventory, and channels. Here are the signals to watch and the migration path that follows.
Platforms deep dive: Migrating from Wix to Shopify without losing customers.
News deep dive: What changed in policy for retail teams in 2026.
Consumer Trends deep dive: Loyalty pricing tiers explained for value-driven shoppers.
A breaking story does not wait for legal sign-off. This is how retailers build a crisis comms plan that produces a holding statement in 15 minutes, names the decision-maker, and keeps the brand credible across every channel.
Consumer Trends deep dive: Couponing in 2026 is not what your parents remember.