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Against a backdrop of supply chain disruption, the ecommerce boom and worldwide driver shortages over the last several years, many brands have faced hurdles concerning fulfillment while logging more ...
Secondhand clothing has come a long way since the days of the community thrift store as quick-acting brands have positioned themselves to capture some of the $100B global recommerce market.
FedEx Express package and freight standard list rates for U.S., U.S. export and U.S. import services, and FedEx Ground standard list rates will increase an average of 5.9% as of Jan. 1, 2024. The Sept ...
Amazon has ordered 20,000 trucks from Mercedes-Benz to help power its new army of entrepreneurs creating small delivery businesses that will help Prime orders along the last mile to customers’ ...
No one questions the fact that ecommerce packaging waste is a major problem, clogging the planet with yet more plastic and cardboard. The twofold question then becomes, what is being done about it, ...
Shopify is acquiring asset-light last-mile startup Deliverr for $2.1 billion in cash and stock, further building out its fulfillment infrastructure and giving it a counter-move to Amazon’s recently ...
Across the U.S. the economy is reopening, but what the new normal will look like is mostly unknown. Business owners are taking bold steps and making decisive decisions to determine what comes next for ...
It’s getting tough out there. Boxed, the once high-flying online warehouse club that set out to be the ecommerce equivalent of brick-and-click competitors like Costco, Sam’s Club and BJ’s, is now ...
The U.S. Supreme Court, in an end-of-term note, on Wednesday declined to hear a California appellate case that leaves in place AB5, a 2020 state law that calls for so-called gig workers to be ...
Retailers lost $218 billion to ecommerce returns in 2021, at a rate of 20.8% of goods sold, according to a survey conducted by Apriss Retail for the National Retail Federation, up from 18.1% in 2020, ...
Birchbox, Blue Apron, FabFitFun, Dollar Shave Club, Stitch Fix and BarkBox. While all offer consumers very different items, they have one thing in common: Subscribers. These companies took normal, ...
UPS announced it was acquiring last mile platform Roadie for an undisclosed sum, thrusting it front and center into a space that has spiked in the pandemic era, providing a way to service demand that ...