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Best Buy will open a native storefront on TikTok Shop in late October 2026, offering close to 10,000 products with its own fulfilment and in-store returns. It is the first US big-box chain of its scale to commit a general-merchandise assortment to the platform.
TikTok Shop’s reported plan to open Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Australia in Q1 2027 is unlikely to land as three simultaneous launches. Three signals from August 2026 point to at most two shipping local storefronts by March 31, 2027, with Australia the most likely to slip.
TikTok Shop’s June four-market launch and its Sell Across Europe tool signal a pivot from a per-country app to a unified pan-European marketplace. The pattern points to the Shop Tab reaching all ten EU markets before the 2026 holiday quarter, with a GMV milestone in the same window.
TikTok Shop opened four new EU markets on 15 June 2026 alongside a cross-border selling tool that slashes the cost of each launch. Three signals point to another European market wave, likely the Nordics or Central Europe, before the 2026 holiday peak.
Three signals from late May 2026 point to TikTok Shop converting its ten European markets into a single cross-border marketplace. The shift looks likely to land before the 2026 holiday quarter, even as the US business stays ring-fenced.
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