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Etsy is a creative marketplace that only allows items made, designed, handpicked or sourced by the seller; Shopify is your own store, where you can sell far more widely within the law and Shopify's policies.
UK Etsy sellers pay $0.20 per listing, a 6.5% transaction fee, 4% plus 2...
Checked 19 September 2026. Supplement data has weaker sourcing than most sectors, so every figure is labelled with its origin, and secondary reporting of panel data is identified as such.
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UK vitamins, minerals and supplements were valued at around £1.5 billion in 2023, growing...
Checked 19 September 2026. Every price below carries that checked date, and this article is reviewed every six months, because app pricing and features move quickly.
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Do not install an app until you know Shopify cannot already do the job. Bundles, forms, chat, search and transla...
Checked 19 September 2026. Every rate below is UK specific and carries that date. Payment pricing changes more often than almost anything else on a Shopify store, so this article is reviewed quarterly. It is general information rather than payments advice.
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Shopify charges its ow...
Checked 19 September 2026. Every figure carries its source and date, and two widely quoted mobile statistics turn out to be several years old.
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Mobile carried 61.5% of UK online holiday revenue in November and December 2025, worth £16.5 billion and up 14.1% on the previous year...
Checked 19 September 2026. Every figure carries its geography, year and source, because beauty data mixes UK, Great Britain, European and US numbers more freely than any other sector.
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Two credible UK market figures exist and they are not interchangeable: €14.7 billion for the U...
Collected 19 September 2026. Every figure carries the date it was checked, and this article is reviewed every six months. If a price has changed since collection, tell us and we will correct it.
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There is no single UK market price, and every published figure in this article is a...
Checked 19 September 2026. Most TikTok Shop statistics come from TikTok itself, which is stated clearly throughout, with independent measurement used wherever it exists.
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Most TikTok Shop data is first party. TikTok publishes growth percentages without starting figures, so treat...
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The backdrop is fewer births. England and Wales recorded 585,396 live births in 2025, down 1.6% on 2024, with the fertility rate falling to 1.39.
Fewer babies does not mean proportionately less spending, because premiumisation continues, particularly in travel products.
Secondh...
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Amazon is a marketplace where you rent space beside other sellers; Shopify is the platform for your own store, where you control the brand, the customer relationship and the data.
Amazon UK charges £25 a month excluding VAT on the Professional plan, or 75p per item on the Individ...