Retailers may have spoiled their shoppers this Christmas—with free shipping. Some 63% of Internet retail sales were shipped for free during the week through Dec. 4, according to comScore. That is up from 51% in the same week of 2010 and 44% in 2009. While there is a regular spike during the holidays, the average [...]
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Free Shipping Deemed Important to Online Shoppers this Holiday Season
Traditional retailers are taking the expensive step of offering more free-shipping deals this holiday season, as they seek to lure the growing number of Internet shoppers to their websites and away from online-only rivals, particularly Amazon.com Inc. Amazon offers free shipping on most orders over $25, as well as cheap, low-hassle delivery options such as [...]
What can Ground do for You? Read this before you send your next Overnight Package
Here is an important point to consider when you are looking for ways to save money on shipping packages. FedEx and UPS deliver to many locations, next day guaranteed, with their low cost Ground Service. So why pay for next day air service on a package you need to be delivered tomorrow at double or [...]
Why it’s Important for your Fulfillment Company to be Flexible
Outsourcing to a third-party fulfillment center can provide growing companies the warehousing and distribution services they need to support business growth. However, in order to maximize their potential benefits, companies should consider working with professional fulfillment services that utilize flexible technologies to deliver a customized distribution platform designed around their specific business requirements. Many business [...]
What are the Cost Components of Shipping an Order for an Online Retailer?
One of the largest expenses for any business that sells products online is the cost for order fulfillment. In total, the order fulfillment process includes the storage, packing, and shipment of customer orders that come through an online store. These costs are beyond the expense of sourcing and purchasing the products being sold (regardless of what [...]
Connecting Your Shopping Cart Software When You Outsource Order Fulfillment
Start up online retailers and small to medium size ecommerce retailers are the types of clients we work with most often. Sometimes these are businesses that are not yet shipping orders, or in other cases are doing the order fulfillment themselves. As the decision gets made to outsource the order fulfillment function one of the [...]
Strategies for Online Retailers to Compete with “Free Shipping” Offers
There are a number of good strategies to deal with the free shipping war going on right now in the online retail space. The bad news is there is no FedEx “Free” option that companies like Amazon know about, while you are stuck shipping FedEx Ground. The key is to manage your shipping costs while [...]
Good Article On What To Consider When Creating Your Online Store’s Returns Policy
http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/2793-Using-the-Return-Policy-to-Convert-Shoppers-into-Customers Also, here is a link to another post that talks about how a 3rd party order fulfillment operation handles returns. http://fillship.com/blog/2011/05/17/how-are-returns-handled-at-an-order-fulfillment-warehouse/ _______________________________ What to talk about order fulfillment for your company? Click Here!
How do online retailers offer “Free Shipping”?
A question we get a lot from clients is “How can so many online retailers offer free shipping?“, which is then followed up with “What can we do to compete with free shipping offers?” There are a couple of reasons online retailers are able to offer free or cheap shipping, unfortunately the reality is that [...]
