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A new year has just started and e-commerce in Sweden has put yet another fantastic year behind, with a growth of 16 % and a turnover of 42.9 billion SEK, with is 6.4 % of the total turnover in Swedish retail.

Mastercard’s digital wallet MasterPass will be launched in Sweden during Q1 2015, you can already submit your interest if you want to take part of the pilot testing. Over 40,000 web stores around the world already use the payment option that can give the mobile commerce the extra push that is needed having the number of tablets and smartphones that are available around Sweden.

22 % of the people in Sweden do it. Sales went up with 38 % during 2013. Yet, barely 1 % of the total grocery sales is online. 265 billion SEK is available. E-commerce in groceries is predicted to be able to reach 22 % in 10 years, if we just do it right.

Cyber Monday, the digital version of the large shopping day Black Friday, takes place on December 1 this year. The same day as several e-retailers starts their digital Christmas calendar with offers every day until Christmas. There are probably a lot of us that have been raised with the real Advent calendars or Christmas calendars as children.

Last month, I wrote about when we attended Sitecore Symposium 2014 in Barcelona in September. Here are a few more reflections that we brought home from the event. We should stop making assumptions about content, and test more. How gamification can be positive for customer loyalty and engagement. And for those who have a need to manage and analyse external web sites as it was an ordinary Sitecore site at the same place, FXM will be fully integrated in Sitecore 8.