Walmart is continuing to build on its efforts to become a one-stop shop in the Internet age. The retailer on Tuesday said it is adding FedEx Office locations, where customers can ship packages, drop off returns and pick up deliveries, to 500 of its U.S. stores. The announcement follows a pilot program in which the
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DHL looks to seize on potential growth in U.S. e-commerce market
The parcel and express carrier has begun to expand its U.S. market presence by offering a new delivery program that caters to urban e-commerce retailers and shoppers. DHL has begun to expand its U.S. market presence by offering a new delivery program that caters to urban e-commerce retailers and shoppers, the
DHL targets e-commerce with ‘virtual delivery network’ service
Responding to demand for faster, more personalized service from customers, DHL has launched DHL Parcel Metro in the U.S., which the express company says is a fast and flexible service for online retailers that meet consumers’ increasing demand for same-day and next-day delivery. “E-tailers today recognize more and more that the
Walmart launches US-wide bid for online grocery delivery market
Selecting the right cucumber is a nail-biter under the best of circumstances, and such circumstances don’t often exist, we now know through *extensive research. Most retailers simply mound up a few dozen of these unfortunate tubular gourds in open coolers and then price them so low that anyone inclined towards
Going Dutch: How Schiphol is solving cross-border e-commerce issues
Last December, clandestine teams of Chinese executives began showing up at airports across Europe, probing the facilities that they visited for strengths and weaknesses. They tracked shipments, timed customs delays, rated services and mapped out logistics infrastructure. While these cloak-and-dagger movements may seem to be wrapped in political intrigue, of a
DHL asks, is your business falling behind in supply chain digitalization?
It’s not just a catchy headline any longer: your business is missing out – or even falling behind – and DHL has the data to prove it! According to the integrator’s polling, 95 percent of companies are not capturing the “full benefits of digitalization technologies for their supply chains.” “This is a transformative
Increased volume not translating to better margins, e-commerce study shows
You don’t have to be Alan Greenspan to see that e-commerce is the new frontier of retail, but what does the shifting market mean for logistics companies supporting the change? According to a study conducted by market research organization Transport Intelligence (Ti), conducted during the recent holiday season, logistics firms may
Latest Amazon report delivers blow to FedEx and UPS
Packages from Amazon Prime have been delivered by UPS, FedEx and the Postal Service. But that might be changing. [Associated Press Archive] FedEx, UPS Shares Fall Amazon has already shown that it can rattle the retail, grocery and health insurance industries, and now it is doing the same in the delivery business. The
Why Airfreight Traffic Is Up
Companies are shipping more items by plane to meet customers’ rising expectations for fast delivery, prompting a scramble for cargo space that has sent airfreight rates soaring and pushed Amazon into the airline business. Global airfreight traffic climbed almost 9% year-over-year in November, the start of the peak shipping season, and
FedEx to merge specialty logistics, e-commerce into its forwarding arm
FedEx announced yesterday that, starting March 1, 2018, it will begin merging its speciality logistics and e-commerce services into a new structure, under the company’s freight forwarding arm, FedEx Trade Networks, Inc. The reorganization puts the muscle of FedEx’s entire network behind the company’s global e-commerce services portfolio, which the integrator