🛒 Shopping & Marketplaces

Amazon 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

The everything store, and everyone's competitor.

• bol The Benelux marketplace, roughly Amazon's local equivalent. 🇳🇱
• OTTO Hamburg's century-old retailer, now Germany's number two marketplace. 🇩🇪
• Allegro Poland's dominant marketplace, older than Amazon itself. 🇵🇱
• Alza Czech electronics and general retailer across Central Europe. 🇨🇿

eBay 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

The original auction house, now mostly buy-it-now.

• Vinted Vilnius-built second-hand fashion, now Europe's biggest resale app. 🇱🇹
• willhaben Austria's classifieds giant for everything from bikes to flats. 🇦🇹
• leboncoin France's dominant classifieds platform. 🇫🇷
• Bazos Czech no-frills classifieds, wildly popular and free. 🇨🇿

Shein / Temu fashion 🇨🇳 CN · non-EU

Ultra-fast fashion flown in by the parcel-load.

• Zalando Berlin's pan-European fashion platform, with EU consumer law applying. 🇩🇪
• About You Hamburg fashion retailer with a strong app-first model. 🇩🇪
• Vinted Buy it second-hand instead: cheaper, and the garment already exists. 🇱🇹
• Zalando Pre-owned Second-hand inside the mainstream retailer. 🇩🇪

Temu / Shein / AliExpress 🇨🇳 CN · non-EU

Very cheap, very far away, very much under DSA investigation.

• Allegro Polish marketplace with EU consumer protection actually applying. 🇵🇱
• Alza Czech retailer with real warranties and local returns. 🇨🇿
• OTTO German marketplace with vetted sellers. 🇩🇪
• eMAG Romanian marketplace covering South-Eastern Europe. 🇷🇴

Uber Eats / DoorDash 🇺🇸 US · non-EU

Delivery economics, imported.

• Just Eat Takeaway Amsterdam group behind Lieferando, Thuisbezorgd and Just Eat. 🇳🇱
• Wolt Helsinki-built delivery with the best courier app in the business. 🇫🇮
• Glovo Barcelona multi-category delivery across southern and eastern Europe. 🇪🇸
• Bolt Food Estonian delivery arm of Bolt. 🇪🇪