E-Commerce/Omni-Channel

Why Are Traditional Retailers Failing?

April 27, 2017

Keith Phillips, President & CEO, Voxware

Instant Fulfillment: The New Meaning of Fast Fashion

April 27, 2017

How fast is fast enough when it comes to clothes and gratification? How much do you really need that dress or bag or platform sandal?

Darkstore Takes Airbnb Approach to E-Commerce Fulfillment

April 26, 2017

MultiChannel Merchant

App-driven startup Darkstore, which matches e-commerce shippers with urban fulfillment centers that have excess capacity to facilitate same-day delivery, will use a new cash infusion to expand beyond the three markets it currently serves.

Target Agrees to Phase Out Use of Polystyrene Packaging

April 25, 2017

Environmental Leader

Target has announced it will begin to phase out use of polystyrene foam packing in its e-commerce operations.

Wal-Mart Brings Price War to Groceries, Boosting Pressure on Big Food Retailers

April 25, 2017

The Wall Street Journal

Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s fight to defend its low-cost reputation is helping to extend the longest food-price decline in decades.

UPS Talks About New Saturday Ground Pickup, Delivery

April 24, 2017

MultiChannel Merchant

UPS recently announced it was adding Saturday pickup and delivery for its ground division, initially in 15 markets and expanding to 4,700 U.S. cities and towns by the busy holiday season, and to 5,800 locations next year.

Leveraging Enterprise Improvement to Mow Down the Competition

April 21, 2017

Challenge: North America's leading manufacturer and distributor of outdoor power equipment replacement parts experienced rapid growth that brought with it myriad challenges: How could the company continually improve to meet service and growth expectations? How could the company increase productivity to feed increasing demand without sacrificing quality?

The New Shopping Hubs for Cities: Warehouse Distribution Centers

April 21, 2017

The Wall Street Journal

Past scrapyards, railroad tracks, stacks of old wooden pallets and rusty shipping containers here sits a nondescript warehouse, alongside a snarl of freeway overpasses, with two dozen trucks parked at its docks.

Walmart Offers Discount for Store Pickup

April 20, 2017

MultiChannel Merchant

In a move designed to save on shipping costs while offering flexibility to customers, Walmart will begin offering discounts when shoppers opt to pick up an online order in store.

Dog Attacks on Mail Carriers Rise As Online Sales Boom

April 19, 2017

Los Angeles Times

Booming online retail sales are good news for the U.S. Postal Service, but its carriers are incurring a cost: more dog bites.

E-Commerce/Omni-Channel

The latest supply-chain news, analysis, trends and tools for executives in the e-commerce/omnichannel industry — which consists of companies engaged in internet retailing, including those with auxiliary brick-and-mortar stores. Learn how e-commerce/omnichannel companies and their suppliers around the world are managing the flow of products across all channels of the enterprise. Experts sound off on forecasting and demand planning, supply-chain visibility, logistics outsourcing, inventory optimization, transportation management, warehouse management, supply-chain security, corporate social responsibility and more.