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Scaling Up Sales in Enterprises: Weighing Discounts Against Free Shipping

Wiser

Among these strategies, two stand out as particularly effective tools for driving conversions: discounts and free shipping. On the other hand, free shipping has emerged as a potent marketing strategy in the era of eCommerce. Free Shipping The influence of free shipping on eCommerce conversions is profound.

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Reports: Chinese Ecommerce Player Pinduoduo Launches U.S. Site

Retail TouchPoints

Temu’s site shows average shipping times to most of the U.S. Founded in 2015 , Pinduoduo has focused on lower-income customers and the agricultural sector. Multiple women’s dresses are priced below $20 (some below $10 ) and only a few are above $50. of seven to 15 business days, with no fees for orders of $49 or more.

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TikTok Continues Amazon-like Push into Commerce with Fulfillment Services in the UK

Retail TouchPoints

Just like its Amazon counterpart, Fulfilled by Amazon or FBA, FBT will offer UK merchants picking, packing and shipping services for products sold on TikTok. Merchants aren’t required to store all of their SKUs at the warehouse or use FBT for all of their products; they can select which items they want to store and ship through FBT.

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How Brands Can Deliver Sustainable Instant Commerce for Consumers

Retail TouchPoints

Traditional logistics networks weren’t built to handle such breakneck delivery speeds, and retailers are left trying to meet consumers’ expectations while facing ever-rising environmental impacts due to emissions-heavy overnight air shipping, cardboard overuse and even more delivery trucks clogging up city streets and spewing exhaust.

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3 Ways Retailers Can Harness the Post-Purchase Experience

Retail TouchPoints

Fulfilment, shipping, delivery and returns updates can all be enriched with personalized promotions, loyalty program information and other immersive, branded content. Recognizing a customer’s preferences and catering to them during fulfillment, shipping, delivery and returns creates relationship-building moments to encourage future purchases.

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Amazon Begins Expanding Electric Van Program, Provides Update on Packaging Reduction

Retail TouchPoints

Since 2015, Amazon has reduced the weight of its outbound packaging by 33% , eliminating 915,000 tons of packaging material worldwide. Last year, Amazon delivered more than 20 million packages using electric vehicles, and the retailer plans to continue building on this momentum in 2021. Data Analysis Leads to More Efficient Packaging.

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What Chinese grocery chain Freshippo learned from Coles and Woolworths

Inside Retail

Founded in 2015, Freshippo operates more than 300 supermarkets across 27 cities in Mainland China. Executives from Alibaba’s high-tech grocery chain Freshippo recently travelled to Australia to engage with the local FMCG community, as part of a new strategy centred on importing more international goods to the China market.