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E-commerce & Fulfillment
Capacity issues keep e-commerce shippers on their toes
While most of the focus has been on capacity constraints for ocean containers and truckload freight, e-commerce shippers remain concerned about the impacts on the…
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Daily Infographic: Speakeasy Co. now servicing 250 brands through direct-to-consumer alcoholic beverage service
Despite facing challenges of a nascent industry, company sees plenty of room for further expansion
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E-commerce & Fulfillment
Closer to the consumer: How Levi Strauss thought about life post-pandemic
In the apparel world where trying on clothes is so vital to sales, the COVID-19 pandemic presented challenges. Iconic brand Levi used the pandemic to…
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Modern Shipper
Target and Walmart building inventories for different reasons
The best-in-class retailers navigated well, and managed to grow inventory considerably in the first months of the year.
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April retail sales were excellent (for freight markets)
Consumers reversion to services has not come at the detriment of durable goods spending. Over the past four weeks, the mix of durable goods-to-services spending…
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Modern Shipper
PayPal dives into post-purchase sector with acquisition of Happy Returns
PayPal is acquiring Happy Returns, a firm dedicated to improving the returns process for e-commerce orders.
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Modern Shipper
Cloud-payments firm Gr4vy announces $11.1M funding
Former PayPal executive John Lunn has returned to payments with Gr4vy, which has landed an $11.1 million Series A funding round.
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Modern Shipper
Walmart and Target among retailers spending billions to catch Amazon
As Amazon continues to dominate e-commerce, major retailers are stepping up their investments hoping to benefit from shifting consumer demands.
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Can $14 billion get Walmart to e-commerce profitability?
There has been a consumer flight to reliability throughout COVID, and Walmart benefited from this shift as much as any retailer. But with the end…
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Retail sector’s holiday winners and losers
New data from Mastercard’s SpendingPulse showed that overall holiday retail sales rose in 2020, but department stores took a hit as more Americans bought online.
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