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Want to Cut the Cost of Fast Fulfillment? It All Starts with Inventory Placement

Retail TouchPoints

The problems with getting products to people quickly and cheaply are well-known: consumers want fast fulfillment, which is costly to provide, but they don’t want to pay high (or really any) shipping fees. Even Amazon , the trendsetter in fast fulfillment, isn’t immune to higher labor costs.

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

Retail TouchPoints

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? This means that when ecommerce retailers can’t provide the peace of mind that clear return shipping policies can offer, customers will take their money and run.

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Blue Yonder Helps Retailers Manage Omnichannel Fulfillment Options

Retail TouchPoints

The individually deployable, augmentative microservices are designed to improve the shopper experience by helping retailers ensure order and fulfillment accuracy.

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Canada Fulfillment Services for Brands Inside Canada (And Shipping there)

Ecommerce Platforms

Whether your company is in Canada or you'd like to ship to Canadian customers, it's important to find a Canada-focused fulfillment service that provides fast shipping, high-quality storage environments, and affordable rates. The goal of this article is to identify fulfillment services with a solid presence inside Canada.

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Q4 Roundup: Amazon and Target’s Success Spotlights Fulfillment Prowess, Stores or no Stores

Retail TouchPoints

Fulfillment was a key driver during the ecommerce-driven final quarter of 2020. Amazon in particular invested more than $60 billion in shipping alone in 2020, helping it maintain blazing fast delivery times, but O’Shea believes its lack of a significant physical store footprint will cause it to lag behind the competition to some degree.

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How To Calculate Shipping Costs

Ecommerce Platforms

Shipping doesn't have to be free. However, studies have shown that 91% of ecommerce customers rethink their purchases from online stores when they realize that the shipping wasn't priced well or it wasn't fast enough. Customers go to those sites and expect free/cheap shipping and rapid store-to-door delivery.

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Best Fulfillment Center for Small Business in 2022

Ecommerce Platforms

You may wonder if a fulfillment center is only for large businesses. To answer those questions, we must clarify that 3PL fulfillment is in fact for every type of business. However, you simply have to partner with a fulfillment company that caters to small businesses. Best Fulfillment Center for Small Business.