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The packaging needed to keep a small shipment of chocolate cool enough not to melt in hot weather can cost more than the product itself, a factor hampering chocolate makers in their efforts to cash in on e-commerce.

Pitney Bowes’s postage meters have been fixtures in mailrooms around the world for most of the last century. Now the company is staking its future on mass mailing’s replacement: e-commerce.

Grocery-delivery startup adds to leadership as competition for customers and tie-ups with stores is heating up.

FedEx will expand its global e-commerce business in an effort to compete for the growing number of packages shipped to consumers from China and Japan.

Contracts between suppliers and distributors which actively prevent consumers from buying goods and digital content online across the European Union’s borders could face closer antitrust inspection, the bloc’s competition watchdog said Friday. The European Commission, the bloc’s antitrust authority, on Friday released the first findings of its probe into the e-commerce sector with a paper that focused on geo-blocking, a practice to discriminate via price or the range of goods a company offers based on a customer’s location. The EU said geo-blocking was “widespread” in Europe.

CBRE says in a report that the warehouses with more than 500 people may see annual labor costs grow by $1 million or more.