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Flexible delivery is the way to a Millennial’s heart but not to their wallet

16th December 2015 - 9:00 am
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Delivery convenience matters most to shoppers aged between 18 and 34, according to research from eBay Enterprise and Imperial College Business School. The study found that 65% of UK shoppers in that age bracket are more likely to buy from an online retailer that offered convenient delivery over one that (more…)

Ecommerce and delivery forge ahead in Tech City Future Fifty

16th December 2015 - 8:00 am
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Ecommerce and delivery companies will make up one third of business making up the new Tech City UK Future Fifty intake, making ecommerce the dominant trend in the programme. The Future Fifty programme showcases and supports 50 of the UK’s leading growth-stage digital companies, and the new intake have been (more…)

Amazon brings one-hour delivery to Manchester as it pushes its logistics ambitions

15th December 2015 - 1:40 pm
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Joining Birmingham, London, and Newcastle, Amazon shoppers in and around Manchester are now able to get one-hour delivery via the online retail giant’s Prime Now service. Orders placed as late as 9:45pm on Christmas Eve are eligible for Prime Now delivery, although in some postcode areas it operates as a (more…)

Fulfilment: cost or profit?

9th December 2015 - 12:13 pm
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A study by JDA and PwC finds that only a small percentage of retailers and brands are able to fulfil their omnichannel sales profitably… Retailers and consumer goods manufacturers are spending an enormous amount of money, energy and time to improve their omnichannel sales capabilities. While this may not be (more…)

Yodel’s peak cap fits as 1% uplift keeps carrier in control

9th December 2015 - 11:53 am
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Yodel has exorcised the ghosts of last year’s cyber week peak, the company has said, by delivering a record-breaking number of parcels between 26 November and 2 December, the cyber week period. The overall volume of parcels into the Yodel network during cyber week 2015 was 5,098,559, an increase of just 1% on the 5,048,305 (more…)

Costing returns

2nd December 2015 - 11:06 am
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With shoppers saying that returning products bought online is difficult, inconvenient and too complicated should retailers be doing more to ease the consumer pain points, make the processes more efficient and drive up customer loyalty? Emma Herrod investigates.  Not only do customers want retailers to offer free returns on goods (more…)

So long Black Friday, hello Cyber x-day: the future’s online

1st December 2015 - 9:00 am
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A single dot on a graph is just that – a dot. Two dots make a line. Three … well, now you can see a pattern emerging. And although one swallow does not make a spring, as the saying goes, I’m going to stick my neck out – again – (more…)

Asda’s Black Friday u-turn: brave, or unavoidable?

17th November 2015 - 11:32 am
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Asda, owned by that colossus of the retail scene, Walmart, is held to be responsible by many for the introduction of Black Friday to the UK market. Whether that is strictly true may be a point of contention, but it was certainly one of those leading the charge. There is, (more…)

Asda goes ToYou, but will you go to Asda?

16th November 2015 - 3:00 pm
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Last week, Asda announced it was getting into the parcels game with the launch of ToYou, an end-to-end fulfilment service that will see Asda vehicles collecting orders from retailers and 3PLs across the country. As reported in eDelivery’s sister title, InternetRetailing, Asda “is enabling third-party retailers to offer their customers the (more…)

Under the spotlight: peak preparations from DPD, FedEx and Yodel

11th November 2015 - 11:15 am
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The next two months will be a testing time for everyone in the multichannel retail world, none more so than the delivery companies, who are at the sharp-end of service provision. This time last year you would have been hard-pressed to find someone who was seriously predicting the imminent demise (more…)

Enhanced logistics: ‘Top’ is redefined

11th November 2015 - 8:01 am
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Researching the next IRUK Top500 report has revealed significant enhancements in logistics practices over the past year. Martin Shaw, InternetRetailing’s Senior Researcher, shares some of the findings. In the course of re-making our index it has become increasingly clear that what qualifies a retailer as a top performer can change (more…)

Regional variations and shopper attitudes muddy the peak period waters

30th October 2015 - 2:25 pm
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Despite predictions of £1bn worth of sales being made this coming Black Friday – which is now precisely four weeks away – research from IMRG and eDigitalResearch has found UK shoppers evenly split as to whether or not they are actually looking forward to the event. According to the survey of 2,030 (more…)

Expanding your horizons: what’s Napoleon got to do with delivery?

27th October 2015 - 3:05 pm
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Although he’s not in a position to give us his opinion on how to run a successful ecommerce business, few people were more practiced in the art of expansion than Napoleon Bonaparte. The Little Corporal came a cropper 200 years ago, finally succumbing at the battle of Waterloo in June (more…)

Twin peaks of Christmas await retailers

8th October 2015 - 10:36 am
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UK retailers can look forward to a second spike in online shopping this Christmas, according to a study from eBay Enterprise. Analysing data from last year, and projecting it on to what might happen in just a few weeks’ time, eBay Enterprise has concluded that while Black Friday and Cyber Monday (more…)

The returns timebomb: interview with Jo Swinson, Consumer Rights Act co-author

5th October 2015 - 2:37 pm
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Last week saw the introduction of the Consumer Rights Act on 1 October, which has a number of implications that impact particularly on the e-commerce logistics business. Perhaps the most obvious is its potential to put more pressure on returns networks. eDelivery spoke to one of the Acts authors, Jo (more…)

Many unhappy returns from the Consumer Rights Act

1st October 2015 - 10:38 am
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The new Consumer Rights Act came into force today (1 October 2015) and ushers in what some in the retail sector believe will be a new era of returns headaches. It’s not hard to see why. For the first time, consumers have 30 days to return faulty products and get (more…)

Stores are the new black: go omnichannel or go home

11th September 2015 - 8:33 am
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Pure-players have to go omnichannel if they want to grow in the future; the physical store is an especially powerful and indispensable part of an omni-channel strategy, writes Lotte Weichenfeldt Schjøtt of delivery management software company EDI-Soft. Today there are many ways of reaching the consumers, such as physical stores, online shops, mobile (more…)

Avoiding mistakes and protecting your hard-earned reputation

2nd September 2015 - 7:31 am
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Courier firms know only too well how avoidable mistakes can easily lead to reputation damage and loss of business for brands shipping products to customers; problems have a strong impact on a retailer’s brand, not just that of their carrier. Eliminating mistakes might never be possible, but reducing your exposure (more…)

Eight miles high: FedEx, UPS, DHL do battle in the air

26th August 2015 - 8:00 am
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The last mile might occupy the thoughts of many in the delivery sector, but it’s what happens miles above us that matters to the big names of the shipping world. FedEx in particular has its sights set on supremacy in the air, having ordered 50 new Boeing 767 freight planes, (more…)

Free shipping – boom or bust?

20th August 2015 - 9:25 am
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According to experts, free shipping in online shops is unsustainable. However, others believe that free shipping is a powerful tool to drive online sales, if used the right way, writes Lotte Weichenfeldt Schjøtt of EDI-Soft. Retail Expert Natalie Berg says in her new report The Future of Retail: 10 Trends of (more…)

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