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Building Loyalty Without Breaking the Bottom Line: the Dual Shipping Dilemma for Ecommerce Merchants

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While this is good news for many ecommerce retailers, it has also become more and more expensive to deliver those goods to customers. This presents a dual shipping dilemma for businesses: how can they keep shipping costs on the business low, while also offering customer-friendly return policies? of total retail sales.

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The Impact of the Russia-Ukraine War on E-commerce Shipping

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How the Russia-Ukraine War Has Impacted E-commerce and the Global Supply Chain. on March 14, 2022, according to USA Today. Issues That E-commerce Businesses Are Prone to Face as a Result of the Russia-Ukraine War. The e-commerce impact of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine may not be limited to that region.

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How E-commerce Businesses Can Have a Great Festive Season in 2022

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However, for e-commerce retail businesses the next 3 months (From Halloween to New Year) are pretty hectic, as they have to come up with new initiatives to sell more products, delight all customers, and most importantly have a season to remember. How E-commerce Businesses Can Have a Great Festive Season in 2022.

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UPS Expands Integrated Global Ecommerce Shipping Through ESW Partnership

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UPS is cultivating its shipping capabilities for integrated international ecommerce through a partnership with ESW. The agreement between the shipping-and-logistics company and DTC ecommerce firm will aim to facilitate cross-border online business for brands seeking to reach consumers on a global scale.

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Ecommerce Check-In: Has 2022 Shaped Up the Way We Predicted? 

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The ecommerce boom of 2020 brought millions of new shoppers to digital platforms, and that growth trajectory continued into 2021. At the end of 2021, the editors of Retail TouchPoints took a stab at predicting what would happen in ecommerce in 2022. 2022 certainly isn’t turning out how anyone thought it would.

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Guide for E-commerce Businesses to Thrive This Peak Season

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Your fellow e-commerce businesses, shipping carriers, third-party logistic partners, etc have all geared up to handle the peak season’s shipping volume without succumbing to delivery issues and negative customer experiences. This can in turn hurt the operational efficiency of shipping carriers.

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8 Tips to Handle the E-commerce Holiday Rush

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Less than 2 months to go for the holiday season to officially kick off — which means as an e-commerce retailer, you have to make use of the little prep time left to get better equipped at handling the holiday rush. The holiday season is the best time to spread the word about your product and e-commerce business.

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