Royal Mail has launched a £0 promotion of its doorstep collection service, Parcel Collect, until the end of they year when customers book online from today [16 August] until 23:59 on 31st December. With Parcel Collect, customers who already have a label can arrange for their postie to collect their parcel (more…)
Multinational all-in-one ecommerce platform Shopify has partnered with sustainable logistics provider Urb-it, enabling its marketplace merchants to choose zero-emission last mile delivery options. Some of the world’s most successful brands trust Shopify to sell, shop and process orders globally. With Urb-it’s bespoke delivery application, now available on Shopify Marketplace, retailers are (more…)
Exercise equipment provider Peloton will outsource all of its final-mile warehousing and delivery functions to third-party logistics (3PL) partners in a bid to save on costs. The move will happen over the coming weeks, with the closure of physical retail stores also announced for 2023, as the company works to become (more…)
Postal operators and carriers are stepping up their preparations for the Import Control System 2 – ICS2 – second release, which will affect all parties involved in handling, shipping and transporting cargo, express or postal consignments to or via the European Union by air. As of March 2023, postal operators and (more…)
Nestlé Nespresso and DHL Supply Chain will build on its relationship, which dates back to 2014, with DHL now providing logistics and fulfilment services in the UK and Republic of Ireland (ROI). From Q1 2023, DHL will handle all warehousing across Nespresso’s ecommerce and network of retail boutiques in the UK & ROI. (more…)
Rapid delivery service Getir has launched a price promotion for the month of August that will see the prices of some grocery items rolled pack to the 1990s, in response to the cost of living crisis and the highest inflation rates in 27 years. Customers can purchase a Cadbury Dairy Milk (more…)
Tesco has become the first retailer to launch a zero-emission electric lorry to make deliveries from its distribution centres to stores in city centres. The first electrically-powered lorry of its kind, made by Renault Trucks, is now delivering to more than 400 stores in Greater London, with further electric lorries (more…)
Metapack, a global leader in ecommerce delivery technology, has announced that HIVED has joined its Delivery Manager Platform, enabling retailers across the UK to offer their consumers high-quality, zero-emission delivery at affordable prices. The parcel delivery service start-up has redeveloped the process of getting a parcel from the warehouse to (more…)
Deliveroo has reported a pretax loss of £147.3 million in the first six months of the year, up 54% from the same period a year ago, with Simon Wolfson, CEO of Next, stepping down from its board with immediate effect. Lord Wolfson said: “After much consideration, and with regret, I believe that the (more…)
The Communication Workers Union (CWU), which represents Royal Mail Group workers, has announced the national postal service will go on strike for four days surrounding the August Bank Holiday. CWU said over 115,000 postal workers will be taking part in the biggest strike of summer so far to demand a “dignified, (more…)
Carrier management company GFS are collaborating with what3words, offering their customers delivery to an exact address via a what3words-enabled logistics provider. UK-based GFS is the first and largest provider of managed multi-carrier ecommerce delivery and returns services enabled by its proprietary Enterprise Carrier Management platform. The partnership with what3words means that GFS clients can (more…)
Uber Technologies and The Body Shop has announced the expansion of their partnership to include almost all of the beauty company’s retail stores across the US. This expansion brings new locations to the Uber platform and allows consumers in new cities, including Illinois, Nevada, Georgia, Pennsylvania and even Alaska and Hawaii, to shop for The Body (more…)
Royal Mail is set to move delivery times to later in the day in a bid to offer a bigger parcel service, according to reports in The Daily Telegraph. Under new plans 17 areas across the UK could see their post delivered at 6pm at the earliest, including parts of London, Cornwall, (more…)
Ocado has put in a new bid to use a controversial north London site for “storage and distribution”, despite previously having had its certificate revoked and a further application refused. The food delivery firm has applied for a certificate of lawfulness of existing use for its Bush Industrial Estate, Tufnell Park location. It (more…)
Parcelhub is set to invest £450,000 in the rollout of electric vehicles within its regional depot network, several vans are already operating from its Nottingham and Dinnington sites and over the coming months it will see additional all-electric vans added to its fleet across all sites. The multi-carrier shipping firm, (more…)
A new partnership between Asda and Deliveroo will see the on-demand delivery of groceries to households in Wakefield, Leeds and Manchester, as the service is introduced to 15 Asda stores. The roll-out which begins in August will enable customers to choose from over 2,400 products from the Asda range – (more…)
Research from DHL Express has revealed mixed perspectives among small and medium sized British exporters for the remainder of the year, with one third feeling the outlook for their business is more positive for 2022, with the remaining disagreeing (30%) or undecided (37%). Reflecting on the time since the UK’s (more…)
Gopuff co-founder Rafael Ilishayev has defended his company’s business model on LinkedIn following questions regarding the future of the quick commerce sector. While during the pandemic lockdowns quick commerce firms experienced exponential growth, many have since either been acquired or folded completed as the easing of restrictions saw demand decrease. (more…)
Henkel, the business behind leading brands including Schwarzkopf, has extended its partnership with DHL Supply Chain, which has seen the company move its retail operation to the new state of the art facility in Manton Wood, North Nottinghamshire. Henkel said it made the transition with DHL as part of its (more…)
Data from Collect+, the in-store parcel service from PayPoint, has revealed a surge in Amazon parcel collections at convenience stores as shoppers took advantage of Amazon Prime Day sales on 12-13 July. For the week containing the annual deal event, the number of parcels collected by consumers across 10,000 Collect+ (more…)
