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Operations & Fulfillment Strategies & Tactics
week of 5/22/2019 |
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| Amazon’s One-Day Shipping: The Real Story for Retailers |
| If Amazon owns nearly half of the U.S. ecommerce market, why the need to offer one-day delivery? The reason: Its singular obsession with customer centricity. Insights abound for those able to get past the headlines. Here are three of the most important takeaways that were either overlooked or under-covered in the media frenzy.…» |
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| Ecommerce Fraud Cooks Up Trouble in Food Delivery |
| While retailers pursue same-day delivery, grocers often complete and ship orders in an hour, while restaurants get even less time. Merchants in food delivery thus have to make instant decisions about the legitimacy of a purchase or risk upsetting their customers. The trick is implementing fraud prevention without ruining the experience. …» |
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| Don’t Make These 3 Branding Sacrifices with Your Packaging |
| More retailers are shipping products directly to consumers. Packages often arrive in standard shipping boxes or other utilitarian protective materials, but why? Companies are missing opportunities to increase sales when they fail to see packaging as a shippable billboard. …» |
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| Nearly All Retailers, Manufacturers Cite Increased Sales from Drop Shipping |
| Drop shipping is seen as beneficial by nearly all retailers and manufacturers who take part in it, the former from an expanded SKU assortment without inventory carrying costs and both parties from increased sales, according to a new survey from Lehigh University and DiCentral. Eighty-seven percent of respondents said it boosted sales. …» |
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| SCOTUS Declines to Hear UPS Case on USPS Pricing |
| The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of a lower court ruling, which denied UPS's legal claim that the U.S. Postal Service’s pricing model gave it an unfair advantage over parcel shipping competitors. In 2018, a U.S. Appellate Court in Washington, DC upheld the pricing methodology. Amazon backed the USPS in the case.…» |
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