Archives for November 2014

Thanksgiving Food Safety

Make sure you can enjoy your Thanksgiving feast and any leftover turkey this Thanksgiving by practicing good food safety.  Courtesy of our friends at the Food Safety Education Partnership, here are some tips to keep your food safe from shopping to eating.  To cap it off, get inspired to jazz up your leftover sandwich this…

Dabba-What? Dabbawalla!

As mentioned last week, Starbucks hopes to begin desk delivery in select urban markets as early as next year. Desk delivery in a crowded city environment sounds equally like a new complex innovation and a logistical nightmare. But what if a vastly successful delivery system already existed?  What could we learn from it? On the other side of…

Starbucks to Start Desk Delivery in 2015

On April 1, 2011, via blog, Starbucks announced a new service called Starbucks Mobile Pour. Read the post here. Baristas on scooters stationed every square mile in seven of the largest cities around the country would rapidly fulfill any mobile smartphone order. You could be walking down the street, and a barista on a scooter would…

collaborate. grow. win.

These words are often overused, but we refuse to give them up just because they have become fashionable.  ES3 was founded on a vision of a world where manufacturers and retailers collaborated to streamline the supply chain, reducing cost, increasing speed, and improving sustainability.  Collaboration does not work without trust.  Our passion for collaboration has…

UPS Holiday Volume to Peak on Dec. 22

UPS expects to deliver more than 585 million packages this December, up 11% over last year.  During the 2013 Holiday Season, bad weather and last-minute orders prevented UPS and FedEx from meeting Christmas delivery deadlines, resulting in many unhappy customers.  This year, both FedEx and UPS have increased capacity and tightened last-minute order deadlines in order to not…

The Perfect Thanksgiving Meal From ES3’s Partners

 This Thanksgiving, prepare your feast with some of our Partners’ delicious products!  From appetizers to dessert, they have you covered!   Appetizer- Cocktail Meatballs For an easy appetizer full of flavor, start with Tyson’s home-style frozen meatballs Put meatballs into a crockpot sprayed with Pam spray. Add one jar of Heinz Chili Sauce to crockpot…

Consumers Will Trade Personal Info for Deals

In a new study from Fierce Retail, 60% of shoppers said they are comfortable giving out personal information, anonymously, to their favorite stores, in order to receive benefits and rewards.  The majority, or 56%, said they would give the same information to brands, while just under half of respondents, 46%, would also give the information…