Against a backdrop of supply chain disruption, the ecommerce boom and worldwide driver shortages over the last several years, many brands have faced hurdles concerning fulfillment while logging more ...

A U.S. Postal Service plan to insource all line hauling of mail and parcels between hubs and local delivery units, which had been handled by contractors, will be completely phased in by 2025, ...

The dynamics of the manufacturer-retailer relationship are complex and subject to constant power shifts. Where retailers often excel at customer loyalty, recognition and retention, manufacturers often ...

Amazon plans to pay influencers $25 a video for content posted to its TikTok-like Inspire site (credit: SocialBook) Amazon will start charging a 2% per-item fee to merchants using Seller Fulfilled ...

It’s undeniable that GenAI is have a major impact across industries, especially since OpenAI introduced ChatGPT last November. But what does that mean in terms of dollars and cents? Research firm IHL ...

No one questions the fact that ecommerce packaging waste is a major problem, clogging the planet with yet more plastic and cardboard. The twofold question then becomes, what is being done about it, ...

Shipping platform firm Shippo has raised another $50 million in capital, just three months after its last $45 million round, doubling its valuation in that time to over $1 billion as it claims 100,000 ...

While Amazon is the clear market leader in ecommerce sales, at $50.9 billion to $19.2 billion in 2022, arch-rival Walmart has been gaining in some respects in their ongoing retail industry cage match, ...

GXO Logistics, which calls itself the world’s largest pure-play contract logistics provider, is acquiring third-party logistics firm PFSweb for $181 million in an all-stock deal, the companies ...

UPS Capital, the financial services and insurance arm of the major carrier, has introduced an AI-powered solution to combat the scourge of porch piracy by creating a score indicating the likelihood of ...

Beans.ai, a routing optimization provider that enables FedEx Ground and others to direct drivers to exact locations like apartment units, and provides other details like parking locations and delivery ...

Amazon aggregators, companies using massive capital infusions to acquire top sellers and roll them up to gain economies of scale, continue to fall on hard times as market forces have squeezed the ...