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

Retail TouchPoints

Online shopping is now easier than ever before, enabling consumers to purchase everything from socks to a dining room table from a computer at their home to a mobile phone in an airport terminal. While this is good news for many ecommerce retailers, it has also become more and more expensive to deliver those goods to customers.

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Shipping Food: We Created A Custom Shipping App For This Restaurant

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There's so much to account for when shipping food, like product availability, shipping on time, displaying accurate costs and more. Shipping Food: G&M's Custom Calendar Shipping App. Their customers didn't know when to expect their food to be delivered. The Solution: A Custom Shipping App.

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Harnessing the Potential of Returnless Refunds to Improve Profitability and Customer Experience

Retail TouchPoints

Common missteps that mismanage customer expectations include inaccurate online product descriptions, low-quality images, lack of inventory visibility or accuracy and inadequate sizing details. This approach — where customers are refunded without being required to return an unwanted item — has its place, but it’s not a blanket solution.

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3 Ways SMBs Can Deliver a More Personalized Shipping Experience

Retail TouchPoints

In this new landscape, the shipping experience has become more important to a brand’s bottom line — and reputation — than ever before. Here are three ways SMBs can deliver a more personalized shipping experience to build a happier, more loyal customer base. Explore options for personalization beyond delivery speed.

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The Ultimate E-commerce Shipping Report For Small Businesses In 2023

Inflation, cost of shipping, and changes in consumer spending are some of the biggest challenges online merchants face today. Get a thorough analysis of these trends, current customer behavior, and more in Shippo’s latest “2023 State of Shipping Report."

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How Bal Harbour Shops’ Unique Traveling Mall Connects with Luxury Consumers

Retail TouchPoints

Meeting Luxury Consumers Where They Are (Image courtesy Whitman Family Development) The COVID-19 pandemic brought about many changes in the U.S., The result has been the creation of new enclaves of wealthy consumers in cities across the U.S., Then, ideally, one day those customers will say, ‘I’d love to go to Bal Harbour Shops.

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Delivery Platform Offers Carbon Offsets to Shipping Customers

Retail TouchPoints

Onfleet will calculate participating customers’ CO 2 emissions by multiplying their monthly mileage by EPA GHG coefficients, based on vehicle type. They can trumpet their sustainability efforts by displaying a banner on their shipping detail pages, assuring their customers that their deliveries are carbon neutral.

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Delight Customers, Reduce Costs, and Drive Profits With Xparcel from RSL

E-commerce businesses depend on reliable shipping to keep their customers happy. But all too often, shipping costs become prohibitive, eating into profit margins. For this reason, businesses choose Rakuten Super Logistics for their e-commerce third party logistics, order fulfillment, and shipping solutions.