Firing yet another salvo in its ongoing ecommerce war with Amazon, Walmart is eliminating its fee-based ShippingPass program that was designed as a counter to Amazon Prime, instead offering free two-day shipping on 2 million items at a $35 order threshold.
In 2017, retailers will focus on several key areas in an effort to boost the customer experience.This includes mobile, marketing, site merchandising and omnichannel efforts. See why retailers are making this shift this year and what it could mean for retail.
ShipRush offers a midmarket web tool that gives merchants a real-time view of parcel rates across multiple carriers, including UPS, FedEx and the USPS. See what it features and what competitors offer.
Office Depot announced the appointment of its new CEO, Gerry Smith, who is Lenovo’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Office Depot. See what this will mean for Office Depot going forward.
Struggling teen apparel retailer Wet Seal is suddenly closing all 148 of its U.S. stores. It joins Limited Stores this month as yet another victim of the rapid shift in consumer buying habits that is hitting store chains hard.
Just four months after she took the helm of fashion retailers Lane Bryant and Catherine’s, CEO Linda Heasley mysteriously left the position. See what its parent company Ascena Retail Group had to say about the departure.
After years of an extremely tight market for commercial warehouse space, mostly due to the booming growth in ecommerce, a rapid increase in development including spec projects has been slowly closing the gap. See what the numbers show and how the market is trending.
In a move similar to UPS and its access point location program launched two years ago, FedEx has struck a deal with Walgreens that will place staffed parcel pickup and dropoff operations at local Walgreens stores.
UPS has acquired British firm Freightex to gain entry into the European truck brokerage market. This comes eight months after FedEx closed its acquisition of Netherlands-based TNT Express. See what a UPS unit executive had to say about the rationale behind the move, how it will be integrated with Coyote Logistics and how it’s positioned in the European market.
Jet.com founder and CEO Marc Lore continues to shake up Walmart’s ecommerce operation as it continues to pursue Amazon, including hundreds of layoffs and several executive moves.