E-Commerce/Omni-Channel

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

April 25, 2017

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.

eBay and FlipKart Pursue E-Commerce Market in India

April 18, 2017

MultiChannel Merchant

eBay Inc., a global e-commerce marketplace and Flipkart, an e-commerce company in India, have agreed to jointly pursue e-commerce opportunities in the Indian market. In exchange for an equity stake in Flipkart, eBay will make a $500m cash investment in and sell its eBay.in business to Flipkart.

Amazon Wants to Create a Grocery Supply Chain That Bypasses Wal-Mart

April 17, 2017

Material Handling & Logistics

Amazon.com Inc. has invited some of the world's biggest brands to its Seattle headquarters in an audacious bid to persuade them that it's time to start shipping products directly to online shoppers and bypass chains like Wal-Mart, Target and Costco.

America's Retailers Are Closing Stores Faster Than Ever

April 17, 2017

Bloomberg

The battered American retail industry took a few more lumps last week, with stores at both ends of the price spectrum preparing to close their doors.

Why Costco Loves Store Sales: You Try Shipping a Tub of Mayo

April 12, 2017

The Wall Street Journal

Costco Wholesale Corp., which built an empire selling products in bulk, hasn't felt the need to transfer that winning strategy online.

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.