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A small company, thrilled to get its products listed on Amazon, might face an unpleasant and unexpected surprise following its …
Amazon’s Pitch to Woo Shippers: Fewer Fees than FedEx, UPS
11 Monday Mar 2019
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E-Commerce Companies Get Creative in Quest for “Last Mile” Space
04 Monday Feb 2019
When is a parking garage not a parking garage? During the busy holiday shipping season, the answer is, “when it’s …
UPS’s Christmas Wish: A Delivery Surge It Can Handle
30 Wednesday Jan 2019
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Although the challenge happens nearly every year, it just keeps getting bigger: How can delivery services handle the massive increase …
Amazon Targets Unprofitable Items, With a Sharper Focus on the Bottom Line
25 Friday Jan 2019
Shoppers might prefer to order bulky, heavy household products (e.g., cans of soup, bottled beverages) to be delivered, so that …
How Robots and Drones Will Change Retail Forever
08 Tuesday Jan 2019
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Grasping and placing. Those are two rather basic tasks for humans, who constantly and unthinkingly pick up items and move …
Sears Seeks to Repair Fraying Supply Chain in Bankruptcy
21 Friday Dec 2018
What happens when one member of a vast supply chain gets in trouble? Do the other members respond with assistance …
Is Apparel Manufacturing Coming Back to America?
07 Friday Dec 2018
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Many of the trends that led manufacturers to move most of their production facilities to various locations around the world …
Why Walmart Shoppers Are Finding More Items ‘Out of Stock’
31 Wednesday Oct 2018
When Walmart bought Jet.com, it was clear that its ecommerce operations would change. In the latest shift, it has redefined …
The Prime Effect: How Amazon’s Two-Day Shipping Is Disrupting Retail
22 Monday Oct 2018
In a sense, retailing has become an arms race, in which enhanced services are the weapons of mass customer satisfaction. …
Fanatics, Maker of Sports Apparel, Thrives by Seizing the Moment
20 Tuesday Mar 2018
Speed is central to pretty much every sport. Today, it also is a critical factor for a related industry: companies …
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