As rising rates and consumer expectations reshape the logistics landscape, it’s clear: the right shipping partner offers more ...

Multichannel Merchant’s Top Third Party Logistics Services (Top 3PLs) online searchable database/directory is compiled by Multichannel Merchant’s editors and is for merchants looking for expert ...

Source: Descartes and SAPIO Research . Delivery Failures = Unhappy Customers. While the increase in ecommerce buying and delivery is good news for merchants, the bad news is that only 34% of consumers ...

The failure of scan and go at Wal-Mart is due to their own incompetence. They never fully rolled the system to their stores. For me there were no Wal-Marts within a 40 mile radius that offered the ...

As we evaluate multichannel warehouse operations, we are commonly asked, “When is a warehouse at capacity?” We find when that between 80% and 85% of space utilization, efficiency typically drops from ...

The Integrity, Notification, and Fairness in Online Market Retail Marketplaces for Consumers Act, aka INFORM Act, was approved by Congress in December 2022 and goes into effect June 27.It’s meant to ...

From standard distribution center functions like pick/pack/ship, packaging and putaway to carriers and shipping, reverse logistics, technology and systems, omnichannel and the customer experience, ...

Society Brands, an Ohio-based acquirer with a small-but-growing portfolio, asks its founders to stick around as brand directors, incenting them with an equity stake from a future liquidity event or ...

The USPS said in April its projected loss over the duration of Delivering for America had been cut from $160 billion to $70 billion, and affirmed it would reach break-even by 2030, despite $3 billion ...

FedEx Express package and freight standard list rates for U.S., U.S. export and U.S. import services, and FedEx Ground standard list rates will increase an average of 5.9% as of Jan. 1, 2024. The Sept ...

Ecommerce worldwide used approximately 2.1 billion pounds of plastic packaging in 2019, the last year figures were available, per Statista. It’s projected to more than double to 4.5 billion pounds by ...

With generative AI adoption being so widespread across industries, one key application and business process of the technology near and dear to the hearts of retailers is finding ways to reduce the ...