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Allegro (ALE) — threat to the moat

Multi-homing costs a seller nothing, so Allegro holds a share of each merchant rather than the whole of it.

A Polish merchant does not choose between Allegro and Amazon. It lists on both, and on Kaufland, and on its own site, because the marginal cost of an additional listing is close to zero.

What a merchant gives up by leaving (zl bn)68,3Third-party GMV on Allegro~0Cost of adding a rival listingAllegro names 11 marketplace rivals in its own risk register; a merchant can use all of them
Multi-homing costs a seller nothing, which is why Allegro competes for share of each merchant rather than for the merchant.

That makes Allegro's position a share of each merchant's volume rather than the whole of it, and shares move without anybody announcing a decision. Allegro's own risk register names Alibaba, Amazon, eBay, Kaufland, Media Markt, Modivo, Shein, Tesco, Temu, Vinted and Zalando as competitors1 — a list of places the same inventory can appear tomorrow.

What Allegro has against this is not exclusivity but gravity: third-party volume of 68 282,4 million złoty2 means the Allegro listing is the one that sells, so it is the one the merchant optimises for. Gravity is a good defence until a rival accumulates enough of its own.

The fulfilment business is the real counterweight, and it is working — managed delivery went from 24% to 41% of parcels in a quarter3. A merchant whose stock sits in Allegro's logistics network is genuinely harder to move than one who merely has a listing.

Watch the managed share. Rising means the relationship is acquiring something a competing listing cannot replicate. Flat would mean Allegro's hold is still nothing but traffic.

References
  1. ReportedAllegro's own risk register names Alibaba, Amazon, eBay, Kaufland, Media Markt, Modivo, Shein, Tesco, Temu, Vinted and Zalando as competitors — a list of places the same inventory can appear tomorrow.
    Allegro.eu Annual Consolidated Report 2025 - risk and control environment (the named competitor set including Amazon, Temu, Shein, Vinted and Zalando, Amazon's Prime ecosystem and Polish logistics footprint, Temu's June 2023 entry via Pinduoduo, and the warning that the shift toward sourcing from local merchants directly challenges Allegro's core value proposition of delivery speed and selection relevancy) — FY2025 · publ. March 2026 · source ↗
  2. ReportedWhat Allegro has against this is not exclusivity but gravity: third-party volume of 68 282,4 million złoty means the Allegro listing is the one that sells, so it is the one the merchant optimises for.
    Allegro.eu Annual Consolidated Report 2025 - management report, business and operations (69 163,1m złoty of gross merchandise value with 68 282,4m third-party, 20,4 million active buyers, the Smart! programme past 7,5 million users in Poland at a relational net promoter score of 83, Allegro Pay financing 15,4% of purchases, Allegro One Box lockers, Ceneo and the PKO Bank Polski partnership) — FY2025 · publ. March 2026 · source ↗
  3. ReportedThe fulfilment business is the real counterweight, and it is working — managed delivery went from 24% to 41% of parcels in a quarter.
    Allegro.eu Annual Consolidated Report 2025 - management report, business and operations (69 163,1m złoty of gross merchandise value with 68 282,4m third-party, 20,4 million active buyers, the Smart! programme past 7,5 million users in Poland at a relational net promoter score of 83, Allegro Pay financing 15,4% of purchases, Allegro One Box lockers, Ceneo and the PKO Bank Polski partnership) — FY2025 · publ. March 2026 · source ↗
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