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The News, Commentary & Events that Shaped Commerce This Week
week of 8/3/2018 |
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| Smart Lock for Home Deliveries Targets Porch Piracy |
| BoxLock, a smart lock startup, is aiming to address the growing problem of porch piracy by securing ecommerce deliveries through barcode scanning by parcel carriers. It went live on Prime Day and is exclusive to Prime members but that's bound to change as the solution catches on.…» |
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| Walmart Ditched Associate Delivery Program After Six Months |
| Less than a year into a pilot program that had employees making local deliveries of online orders, Walmart in January all but quashed the program quietly as associate buy-in wasn’t happening. See how it's still happening at one Georgia store, and other ways Walmart is working to figure out local fulfillment of ecommerce orders.…» |
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| Brookstone Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy |
| Brookstone is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and announced it would be closing 101 mall locations, claiming declining mall traffic as the culprit. Here is what CEO Piau Phang Foo had to say about the decision and the continuing operation of the business in other channels. …» |
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| Stamps.com to Acquire Metapack |
| Stamps.com plans to acquire UK-based Metapack, adding SaaS-based, multi-carrier management software to its online postage solution, expanding its global footprint and giving it more of an enterprise focus. The $230 million deal is expected to close in August.…» |
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