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How to Sell & Ship Perishable Goods Online

Groove

By offering your perishable products directly to consumers outside of your existing in-person sales channels, you will earn new brand champions without sacrificing profit margins to middle-men and chain grocery stores. Shipping Requirements. The list of effects from these shipping requirements goes on for quite a while.

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Stitch Fix Launches ‘Holiday Party Hotline’ to Help Shoppers Find the Perfect Outfit

Retail TouchPoints

The multi-channel initiative was developed in partnership with stylist and social media influencer Allison Bornstein. Now through December 15, consumers can call the new Holiday Party Hotline , a dedicated phone line that will help answer their most pressing fashion questions.

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Amazon’s Counterintuitive Next Big Move — Helping Brands Sell Off Amazon

Retail TouchPoints

New offerings unveiled at Accelerate will help Amazon sellers: Deliver better experiences on their DTC site; More efficiently warehouse and ship product across all their selling channels , even if that means other marketplaces or brick-and-mortar retailers; and Drive customers from Amazon to their owned channels to make a purchase.

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6 Strategies for Reducing Your Ecommerce Store’s Shipping Costs

SellBrite

The one thing that every ecommerce business has in common — regardless of size, niche and experience — is shipping. Whether you sell food, fashion accessories or tech gadgets, you’re always going to have to ship something to your customers. But shipping isn’t cheap and at times it isn’t even fast.

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4 Retail Resolutions to Help Businesses Become More Profitable

RetailMinded

In fact, this is a huge appeal to customers across the generations and has opportunities that appeal to many categories that include home decor, beauty and wellness, accessories and fashion, paper goods, pet products, kids and baby goods, and jewelry. Do you offer a multi-carrier shipping strategy? Why or why not?

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How to Make ‘Buy Online, Pick Up in Store’ (BOPUS) Work for Your Digital Brand

Kissmetrics

However, it requires synergy between online commerce channels and physical retail to succeed. 48 percent of consumers have used BOPUS because it offers free shipping, followed by speed (39 percent) and convenience (28 percent). BOPUS Offers Free Shipping. With BOPUS, shoppers can enjoy free shipping.

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Saks.com Spin-Out: Genius Move or Opportunistic Folly?

Steve Dennis

Indeed, the customer is the channel and retailers with a more harmonized and remarkable retail experience generally outperform those that have failed to break down silos. The long-term profitable growth prospects for high-end fashion pure-plays are far from certain. The lines are blurring.