Jasmine Brown
Is the “do nothing” approach harmful or beneficial to your business? It’s important to consider every alternative when it comes to future plans for your ecommerce fulfillment operations and sticking to the status quo might not always be the best strategy.
The returns process shouldn’t be complicated. However, with return rates growing rapidly alongside ecommerce itself, it’s becoming harder for retailers to provide a great experience while also minding the ballooning cost.
A massive shift to ecommerce due to COVID-19 restrictions has created peak-like conditions for shippers and carriers throughout the late spring and summer, sending demand and costs soaring.
We all enjoy the convenience of ecommerce, ordering anytime and getting stuff shipped to our door fast.
The global shipping landscape may go through at one and possibly two seismic shifts soon.
Whether customers are looking for something specific or simply browsing online or in store, finding a sale is always a bonus. Through specials, retailers strategically placing products where customers are sure to find them, physically and digitally.
With ecommerce expanding and consumers expecting greater speed and convenience, retailers need cost-effective ways to meet these demands.
While many question rosy projections like that of ABI Research, calling for 4 million warehouse robots in 50,000 locations by 2025, no one doubts that use of robots for ecommerce fulfillment is trending up.
The days of large, general interest retail catalogs are gone, replaced by highly personalized pieces of varying lengths and levels of complexity, each targeted to meet the needs of a very specific audience. If the marketing effort involves hundreds of thousands of individual SKUs, the level of difficulty goes to 11.
Small merchants can transform their shipping and mailing operations into an asset rather than a nuisance and cost center. A focus on quick wins that add up over time can fatten your profit margins while delivering increasingly better customer experiences.