Tag: Delivery

May 11, 2016

In its attempt to further rival Amazon, e-retailer Jet.com today added a new category of products: fresh grocery. Items like milk, eggs, fruits, and meats will be available for select customers as the site begins pilot testing this new service […]

March 21, 2016

Ever since Jeff Bezos started the website Amazon to sell books, he has wrestled with how to deliver its products as quickly and cheaply as possible. Today, Amazon, now a retail giant, remains obsessed with this issue, building its own […]

February 3, 2016

Retailers offer consumers a variety of shipping options to meet their needs. According to September 2015 research, ship to store is the most common worldwide. Retail Systems Research (RSR) and SPS Commerce found that nearly two-thirds (61%) of retailers worldwide […]

November 3, 2015

Google has unveiled plans to get into the delivery-by-drone business by 2017. These plans were detailed during an air traffic control conference in Washington earlier today by project leader, David Vos. The project, known as Project Wing and first rumored […]

September 28, 2015

(Bloomberg)—Consumers might delight in the ease of front-door delivery for a mattress, trampoline or gym equipment. FedEx Corp., now handling an increasing number of these bulky shipments, has mixed feelings. As more online shoppers snap up the type of hefty […]

September 21, 2015

The Finnish postal service Posti Group had run some tests with drones for parcel delivery. At the beginning of this month, the postal company let drones fly while transporting parcels between mainland Helsinki and Suomenlinna, an island fortress about five […]

July 29, 2015

The online retailer envisions a highly automated system, tied to a central computer, directing a delivery fleet. (Bloomberg)—The first wave of long-range commercial drones should be allowed to operate in a narrow, low-altitude band and must agree to be tracked, […]

July 7, 2015

John Lewis plans to begin charging some customers who pick up online orders in stores. Competitor Marks & Spencer will expand its free click-and-collect program to more stores. Major United Kingdom department store chain John Lewis Plc says it plans […]

May 12, 2015

Chicago-based ShipBob plans to expand into Brooklyn, N.Y. At 9 a.m. every morning, Dhruv Saxena arrived at the United States Post Office in Chicago’s iconic Willis Tower, and stood at the entrance. The entrepreneur asked people who appeared to be […]

April 8, 2015

Two-thirds expect to receive a delivery by drone within five years, and 80% would pay for the service, a Walker Sands study finds. More U.S. consumers shop more frequently online and they tend to trust Amazon.com Inc. more than other […]