Consumers now expect free delivery in 2.6 days, down from 3.4. Meeting that promise pushed more than half of retailers past FedEx, UPS and the Postal Service.
Grip has shipped more than $3 billion in perishable goods since 2022. Now it hands its fulfillment operation to a 40-year veteran of frozen distribution.
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.
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.
FedEx has filed plans with local planning authorities for the addition of another major parcel sorting building at its super hub at Memphis airport in Tennessee.
Veho is offering e-commerce shippers a way to reduce costs so they can offer free shipping if they are willing to accept day-range certainty instead of a day-definite delivery, in effort to differentiate themselves from other independent parcel carriers.
The European Union is cracking down on the wave of low-value e-commerce shipments from China. Importers could soon have to pay duties on parcels that currently can enter the zone for free.
A new Amazon fulfillment center near Portland, Oregon, is open for business and the retailer is ready to develop another facility in the Midwest.
Final-mile courier Frontdoor Collective is testing a fleet of Chevy electric vans on delivery routes for Target.
Regional parcel carrier Veho has begun offering retailers last-mile delivery in the Los Angeles area as it continues to grow.
InPost partners with Bloq.it to install 20,000 smart lockers, enhancing out-of-home parcel delivery.
Ajex Logistics acquisition boosts DHL’s presence in the Middle East e-commerce market.
Returns have become one of the most difficult and expensive parts of modern retail logistics.
The FedEx Dataworks unit provides deep insight into parcel shipping operations. The best value play is to sell it.
Regional courier service Deliver It has gone out of business.
Amazon is ramping up Same-Day and Next-Day delivery for small towns, rural areas.
Amazon’s air logistics unit has started flying internationally for the first time from the U.S. to help fulfill e-commerce orders in Colombia and is leaning on a U.S. cargo airline to fly the aircraft and a Colombian airline for revenue on the return leg to Miami.
The postal workers union is disparaging what Canada Post called an enhanced offer on Wednesday as the sides struggle to finalize a labor agreement after nearly 18 months of negotiations.
Veho, a tech-enabled parcel courier, is testing a delivery robot that can walk, climb and roll to customer doorsteps in cityscapes.
The CEO of Mercado Libre, the dominant e-commerce player in Latin America, has decided to turn control to one of his lieutenants and move to the board room.
