Same-Day Delivery Growing, But When Does it Make Sense?

| Mike O'Brien

With PetSmart becoming the latest company to offer same-day delivery, other merchants are likely asking themselves, when does this level of service make sense? The answer depends on demographics, product category and your ability to absorb the cost.

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9 Ways to Improve Your Contact Center Operations

| Curt Barry

Many ecommerce pure plays don’t see the value of contact centers. However they can drive revenue and provide customer-centric service, rather than just hoping visitors get all they need from a self-service website. Here are some proven tips for improving the effectiveness of your customer care operations.

Meeting Consumer Expectations with Intelligent Sourcing

| Peter Zaballos

Intelligent sourcing is one way retailers can meet the increasing expectations of today’s always-on consumer, while keeping pace and staying competitive. Find out how trading partnerships and sales performance can be continuously re-evaluated and improved to achieve the greatest efficiency and the best price points for retailers, suppliers and customers.

13 Reasons for Shopping Cart Abandonment, and How to Fix Them

| Rotem Gal

When shoppers abandon the shopping cart, it is important for retailers to dig a little deeper about the reason behind the customer’s decision to do so. Shoppers will abandon carts for a myriad of reasons: Here are 13 reasons they abandon carts, and what you can do to fix them.

23 Ways to Improve Your Inventory Management

| Curt Barry

In the age of omnichannel, inventory management has become a strategic function impacting profitability. Based on work with hundreds of multichannel companies, here are areas to consider making changes in order to get more out of your inventory investment.

How to Wow Your Customers the Old School Way

| Angie Stocklin

Having a killer in-house customer service team is invaluable, and they should your surprise customers in a more personal manner, or in this case, wowing your customers the “old school” way. Here are the benefits of customer happiness, and a few methods that have worked well for online eye wear seller Readers.com.