e-commerce

Example Sentences

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For starters, it is bundled with the broader Amazon Prime subscription, which offers customers free shipping for items ordered from the e-commerce giant, so consumers are less conscious of the cost of the TV service.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

Instead, Mahan’s candidacy was more like Pets.com, a famous e-commerce flop that came to embody the heedless froth of the dot.com bubble.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026

Yet businesses built on digital ads and e-commerce revenue from product recommendations have come under pressure, and the company’s stock is down by nearly two-thirds over the past five years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

Officials found that the cake chain he had ordered from listed nearly 380 locations on major e-commerce platforms but did not have a single physical store.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

All of these interoperable banking and e-commerce functions flattened the Internet marketplace so radically that even eBay was taken by surprise.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman