Blog – Page 2 – Darko Pavic – Global Retail & Fiscalization Expert

Business, Retail

By Darko Pavic
February 17, 2026

When Marketplaces Become Merchants: How U.S. and EU Law Is Pulling Platforms Closer to Product Responsibility

Counterfeits, unsafe goods, missing certifications: the legal trend is not “platform neutrality,” it’s accountability by control. Estée Lauder’s February 2026 lawsuit against Walmart over allegedly counterfeit fragrances is more than a brand-protection headline. It...

Retail

By Darko Pavic
February 12, 2026

Europe’s €3 parcel duty is small on paper — and disruptive in practice

On 11 February 2026, Council of the European Union formally approved a new set of customs duty rules aimed at one specific phenomenon: the explosive rise of low-value parcels entering the European Union through...

Business, Retail, Tax

By Darko Pavic
February 7, 2026

The Tax Shockwave Coming for Retail: More Data, More Control, More Risk

When people talk about innovation in tax, they often jump straight to AI. But the more important shift is quieter and more structural: tax is moving from periodic reporting to continuous visibility. In retail,...

Business

By Darko Pavic
February 5, 2026

Marketing isn’t a department. It’s strategy in public.

I’m an entrepreneur, and I’ve never been able to separate marketing from company strategy. Strategy is what you decide to do. Marketing is how you make that decision real in the market, how you...

Retail

By Darko Pavic
February 3, 2026

Shopify’s POS Hub Is a Small Box With a Big Message: Cloud Retail Still Needs an Edge

In Shopify’s January 2026 “retail release roundup,” the first announcement is not a new AI feature or a new analytics dashboard. It’s hardware: POS Hub, a compact device meant to sit at the checkout...

Fiscalization, Retail, VAT

By Darko Pavic
January 29, 2026

Bosnia’s Next Fiscalization System Won’t Live in the Cash Register

The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina has moved a long-discussed fiscalization overhaul from “eventually” to “now.” In late January 2026, the Parliament’s House of Peoples adopted the Law on Fiscalization of Transactions, and the...

Fiscalization

By Darko Pavic
January 29, 2026

Slovakia’s E‑Commerce Rulebook in 2026

What the new sales-records regime changes, and what remains non‑negotiable in consumer protection, pricing and online contracting. Slovakia is the kind of market that looks simple on a map and complex in the checkout....

Retail

By Darko Pavic
January 28, 2026

The POS Industry Is Finally Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: Fiscal Compliance Can’t Live Inside the Register Foreve

Retail technology is having one of those rare “architecture moments,” when a product announcement quietly reveals a much bigger shift in how the industry will operate for the next decade. Aptos’ latest press release...

Business, Retail, VAT

By Darko Pavic
January 26, 2026

OECD Is Quietly Rewiring Retail Compliance — What Retailers and POS Vendors Should Watch in 2026

A practical, international lens on why “standards” from Paris end up reshaping checkout, invoicing and audit trails worldwide. A checkout used to be the end of a story: the customer pays, a receipt prints,...

Retail, Technology

By Darko Pavic
January 24, 2026

Your AI Assistant Is Lying to You — Unless Your Retail Data Looks Like This (1,803 EuroShop Exhibitors, Proof Inside)

I wanted to learn what “AI-ready data” really means in practice, so I built an enrichment pipeline from scratch and stress‑tested it on the EuroShop 2026 exhibitor list. Here’s what broke, what I changed,...