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Shipping from Store Adds Cost- Lessons from Apparel and Accessories

DSW, the footwear and accessories retailer, shared its experience with omni-channel retailing on a call with analysts yesterday. Discussing fourth-quarter earnings, Mike MacDonald, president and CEO, reported revenue of $640.2 million in the fourth-quarter, $100 million of which was from omni-channel. According to MacDonald, about half of those omni-channel sales are fulfilled from in-store stock….

USPS Will Expand Grocery Delivery Pilot

The USPS announced plans to expand its early-morning package delivery service pilot for 2 years in San Francisco.  Currently, the USPS delivers Amazon Fresh totes to consumers’ homes during a 3 a.m. to 7 a.m. delivery window.  The approved pilot would allow these operations to continue, and open up the pilot to additional retailers and…

Whole Foods Promotes Instacart Partnership

In a lighthearted video, Whole Foods and Instacart extol the benefits of their new partnership.  Want hard to find products or want to send groceries to your favorite college student? The service has you covered with rapid delivery. As detailed in our previous post, Whole Foods now offers online ordering and delivery via Instacart in…

Whole Foods Partners with Instacart

Whole Foods announces a new partnership with grocery delivery start-up Instacart, to deliver groceries from their stores directly to their customers’ homes. The service will be immediately available in the 15 U.S. cities where Instacart already operates, and the two companies are also testing an in-store pickup service in select stores in Boston and Austin….

Uber Breaks Out Same-Day Delivery Service

Uber flexes its startup muscle and announces a new same-day delivery service called Uber Corner Store available only in certain parts of Washington D.C. The announcement comes just a few months after Uber launched UberRUSH, a courier delivery system in Manhattan where customers can have items be picked up and dropped off at a specific address by Uber…

On the Road: Postes Canada

During a recent trip to Quebec City, I spotted a red Canadian mail truck.  On the side, in white letters, below the French version, I read “Delivering the Online World.”  What a great sentiment! Since I haven’t mailed or received anything in Quebec, I’m not sure how well they are keeping up with the claim,…

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