Retail Wire

DECEMBER 10, 2024

As the holiday season fast approaches, Walmart has announced its shopping and shipping cutoffs.

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Retail Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The need for at-home COVID-19 tests is increasing. Here's how to get them for free.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Building a future-proof tech stack To survive and thrive during Black Friday, retailers must invest in tech solutions that integrate seamlessly with their current systems – inventory management, CRMs, and shipping tools. Optimising shipping with automation Shipping logistics are a make-or-break factor during Black Friday.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 19, 2024

Tara Daly, senior director of product marketing at Loop Returns , shares with Inside Retail advice on getting started in the US market, some tips on cross-border shipping and logistics – including managing returns in a way that builds customer loyalty – and how to drive repeat business. But there is a fine line between success and failure.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 14, 2024

Online shopping delivery lead times are getting longer – and getting more expensive – according to research from shipping software developer Shippit. The company’s State of Shipping Report found that the estimated delivery time has risen from two days in 2018 to 5.6 Concurrently, the cost of standard shipping grew from $9 to $10.26

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

With new services like Supply Chain by Amazon and Amazon Shipping joining existing offerings such as FBA and Amazon Lending, Amazon is firmly positioning itself more and more as a tech-powered service company and less and less as a retailer.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 10, 2024

Statuses and benefits include: Bronze Key: Earns one point per dollar, plus free standard shipping on eligible purchases of $35 or more; Silver Key: Earns 1.25 points per dollar, plus free standard shipping with no purchase minimum on eligible items; and Gold Key: Earns 1.5

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Fossil used the Metrical tool to offer free shipping to customers who were most likely to abandon their cart, a targeted promotion that increased the number of carts created by 7.5% and reduced cart abandonment by 26%.

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Retail Wire

AUGUST 20, 2024

The new Papa John's CEO turned Wendy's proverbial ship around.

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Retail Wire

AUGUST 5, 2024

Wendy's didn't reach its Q2 earnings expectations, and the company is hoping that its breakfast strategy will turn the proverbial ship around.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The new ecommerce platform, called Santa’s Gift Shoppe , was developed exclusively for USPS Operation Santa letter adopters to make it easier for participants to shop for the perfect gift and ship it from the comfort of their homes with just a click.

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Retail Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Norwegian Cruise Line has an all-new ship in its fleet.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 4, 2024

Harnessing the expertise of platforms such as Startshipit, together with our simple, reliable shipping solutions, can unlock significant opportunities.” Today, the brand is shipped to more than 190 countries and has a loyal following of fashionistas, thought leaders, and celebrities. It’s not a one-size-fits-all,” Ciano concludes.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The problems with getting products to people quickly and cheaply are well-known: consumers want fast fulfillment, which is costly to provide, but they don’t want to pay high (or really any) shipping fees. This is both more complex and more top-of-mind due to ESG [environmental, social and governance]; no one likes to ship air.”

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Wayfair introduced its paid loyalty program Wayfair Rewards last month , offering 5% back in rewards across Wayfair’s brands and free shipping regardless of order size for a $29 annual fee. . “This integration will strengthen our decision-making and enhance our ability to lead in the market.”

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 3, 2024

When opening an account on the Baby Registry, consumers can confirm where gifts should be shipped, track the baby’s expected arrival date, customize a welcome message for loved ones and start selecting products to add to their lists.

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Retail Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2024

East and Gulf Coasts launched their first major strike in nearly 50 years on Tuesday, halting around half of the nation's ocean shipping. The situation with the ILA has escalated as dockworkers on the U.S.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The company will ship the items to US customers directly from a facility in Guangdong, China. . “We are always exploring new ways to work with our selling partners to delight our customers with more selection, lower prices and greater convenience,” an Amazon spokesperson told Reuters.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 20, 2024

million -square-foot facility, which will employ more than 1,000 associates, is designed to expand access to next-day or two -day shipping for Walmart customers as well as supporting Walmart Fulfillment Services, the retailer’s third-party service for fulfilling items sold on Walmart’s marketplace. 10 miles north of Hagerstown, Md.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 10, 2023

One way of achieving this is through Klaviyo’s integration with Starshipit a shipping platform designed to enable retailers to eliminate manual shipping processes and allow customers to track their parcels, saving a lot of questions and support time.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2024

While it can certainly offset labor and transportation costs associated with return logistics, such as return shipping, disposition, refurbishment and destruction, there are many variables in the mix of determining whether this approach can help shelter profits.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Misfits Market purchased Imperfect Foods in September 2022.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 9, 2024

In 2020 he joined Alibaba, where he is now tasked with developing the company’s strategy and building platform-level solutions around international shipping, logistics, cross-border trade and global expansion. This will cause the channel to continue to narrow, further reducing ship traffic.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The major retailer’s first paid membership program offers unlimited free same-day delivery for orders $35 and above as well as free two-day shipping. Other perks include free shipping with no minimums, free returns and an upgraded birthday gift. Why should brands care about Target 360?

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 10, 2024

Walmart already has opened four of five planned next-generation fulfillment centers , designed to expand access to next-day and two -day shipping for Walmart customers as well as to support clients of Walmart Fulfillment Services.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 25, 2024

As ecommerce sales continue to grow, so does the focus on logistics, enabling retailers to meet the rising demand for shipping. This also extends to collaborations with shipping couriers, providing access to competitive shipping rates and improved delivery times. It should come as no surprise that the U.S. trillion in 2029.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 12, 2024

All delivery and shipping options also are now located in one convenient place, so shoppers can update their shipping locations and find their preferred delivery methods. All product listing pages now have a uniform look and feel; they all have the same layouts, image sizes and fonts to create consistency.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It was no longer enough to route orders to a handful of DCs and drop ship vendors. Doing extensive online research, and then opting for the speed of curbside pickup over ship to address? The picture gets even blurrier when you try to define what exactly constitutes a digital transaction.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 21, 2024

The move to eliminate plastic air pillows is only the latest in a multi-year effort at the ecommerce behemoth to reduce its use of plastic, and packaging in general that also includes: An ongoing effort to ship items in their original packaging without any additional packaging added.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 10, 2024

Image courtesy Ebay Sellers can now easily access insights into: An item’s actual sold price , including the accepted price for Best Offer listings; Items’ average sold price and sold price range; The number of sellers who have sold a specific product; and The percentage of listings for an item that were sold with free shipping and average shipping.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Customers generate a prepaid shipping label from Rebag.Thredup.com, then fill any shippable box or bag with apparel, shoes and accessories from any brand and ship it to ThredUp for free. For items that sell on ThredUp, customers will receive Rebag credit that can be used online and in store.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 13, 2023

Free Shipping (With or Without a Threshold) Thanks to the proliferation of Amazon Prime, today’s shoppers have come to expect some degree of free and fast shipping from online stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 24, 2024

How a Shipping Price Limit is Actually Helping Jacadi Increase AOV Not every brand has the scale or logistical infrastructure to offer fast, free shipping on every purchase, and more and more consumers don’t necessarily expect them to. “If you think about it, checkout should be one of the happiest moments in the online world.”

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 22, 2024

The crux of the issue lies in how revenue is recognized: most ecommerce platforms record revenue based on the sale date, not the ship date, contradicting Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), which require specific treatment of revenue recognition. This discrepancy in revenue recognition can have profound implications.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

And in today’s day and age, shopping online has never been easier — with targeted ads, free shipping, free returns, stores built into Instagram or TikTok, logins saved on your browser and payment information saved on your devices. Shopping is one of life’s simple pleasures.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2024

Second is that most customers ( 73% ) will jump ship and switch brands after just a single bad experience. Unlocking Lifetime Value and Loyalty Means Going Beyond Speed Free two-day shipping lost its novelty long ago, and for successful retailers, fast shipping is a standard, accepted reality, not a significant differentiator.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The Challenges of Shipping Cheese But when done well, an advent calendar can be a boon for business, as it has been for Cheese Brothers. So, yeah, it’s hard to ship, but honestly that keeps the competition at bay, because nobody wants to deal with it. But for cheese the ideal temperature is refrigerated, so around 40 degrees.

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