Today is the day of the platform economy. In honor of this, we will analyze several market news at once. First of all, despite the slowdown in the growth rate of online commerce, its turnover increased by 32% during the January-September year.
Improvement for the benefit of sellers. The platform economy law has been in effect for a little over a month, and the Ministry of Energy is already preparing amendments. They want to allow sellers to refuse discounts at the expense of platforms without the risk of receiving restrictions, to compare commissions for Russian and foreign sellers and to limit the period of transfer of proceeds to 30 days. The last sentence is extremely relevant: only in Wb did the share of sellers who encountered delays in payments increase during the year from 30% to 76% (and these figures are before the effects on the warehouses).
The time has come. They also want to solve the cause of the conflict between the banks and the markets: the buyer needs to see the price of the product without being tied to a payment method - the banks still won. The regulators also became aware of consumer extremism, which more than 60% of sellers encountered. The Ministry of Energy wants to clarify the rules for returning quality goods so that sellers do not have to take back used items.
A Russian post will get a new role. Today, the State Duma adopted in first reading a bill on the online sale of Russian wine. The initiative is controversial, so 3.5 years have passed from the introduction to the first reading. The only operator in this experiment will be a Russian post: it will store wine and deliver orders. For a government company experiencing financial difficulties, this is an additional source of income.