Sam’s Club members can now pay for one-hour delivery from a neighborhood store, part of Walmart’s strategy to compete with Amazon for online sales.
Small and medium-sized businesses are rapidly restructuring sourcing and inventory strategies to mitigate the impact of tariffs.
Happy Returns, a unit of UPS, is adding 1,700 no-label, no-box returns locations to its network and looking to expand returns service for products that can’t be consolidated.
FedEx and UPS will not be major players in the B2C parcel market unless they strategically engage with an e-commerce marketplace, says commentator Satish Jindel.
Ace Hardware is now offering fast in-store delivery on the Uber Eats app.
Amazon continues to invest in faster e-commerce delivery capabilities and is ready to scale up 30-minute drone delivery this year, CEO Andy Jassy said.
Two Boxes has raised $3.2 million to help scale its AI-powered returns platform as retailers grapple with rising fraud and costly reverse logistics.
Amazon this month has made several moves that appeal to customer expectations for fast, convenient delivery and put pressure on rivals.
FedEx is launching same-day delivery through a partnership with OneRail, a final-mile platform.
As global e-commerce logistics grows more complex, ePost Global and ShipWise are working to reduce friction with shipments and international returns.
Target is expanding its next-day delivery service to 20 additional cities.
Cart.com, an e-commerce services company, has raised $180 million in growth capital from Springcoast Partners.
Even with some tariffs struck down, small businesses say policy volatility — not clarity — is shaping their supply chain decisions.
Walmart has agreed to pay $100M to dismiss a lawsuit by the federal government and 11 states that it deceived app-based delivery drivers about pay they would receive.
Walmart’s e-commerce business, supported by its store-fulfillment and delivery services, grew 27% in the fourth quarter and has turned profitable.
When it comes to e-commerce delivery, FedEx only wants longer-haul, heavy and high-value parcels because operating as a local courier for small packages isn’t profitable.
Amazon said its regionalized fulfillment network and expanding same-day delivery helped boost fourth-quarter results to $213.4 billion in net sales.
American Eagle Outfitters is closing down Quiet Logistics and Office Depot is cutting its logistics service subsidiary Veyer, demonstrating that sidelight businesses can be distractions from core retail execution.
Last-mile delivery technology platform FarEye has partnered with Amazon Key to address costly delivery failures stemming from access issues at gated communities and apartment buildings.
Return fraud was supposed to be a cost of doing business. Instead, it’s becoming one of retail’s biggest margin threats. For years, retailers treated returns as a customer experience issue, an unavoidable side effect of e-commerce growth and the Amazon-fueled promise that anything could be sent back, anytime. But as return rates quietly climbed and […]
