Brick-and-Mortar Retail Is Still Alive And Kicking In the era of digital transformation, where online shopping platforms seem to dominate the retail landscape, brick-and-mortar stores have demonstrated remarkable resilience, refusing to be overshadowed by the convenience of eCommerce.
The State of California is known for leading the nation in regulations. So it is no surprise that California’s powerful Air Resources Board (CARB) has adopted the Advanced Clean Fleet rule after several years of proposals and hearings.
Many companies are shifting manufacturing away from China to locations closer to home or to places with friendlier relations. The movement away from offshoring to friend-shoring and nearshoring offers several benefits while simultaneously addressing the need to move away from reliance on China.
Environmental issues are generally politically fraught and often elicit opposing visceral views. However, the free market has become a major factor in the move toward greater sustainability.
Covid exposed the unpreparedness of the whole supply chain to numerous simultaneous failures. Here, we try to parse why a previously resilient system collapsed and what to look out for in the future.
The Journey of Your Online Purchase Let’s follow the path of a theoretical $20 T-shirt you’ve bought online. The journey begins in the overseas factory it was likely produced in and ends at your home. The shirt is manufactured at a factory in Vietnam, packed, and loaded onto a container which is placed on a …
Supply Chain Whiplash Before Covid became a worldwide pandemic, most people never gave much thought to these two words; supply chain. At the outset of the lockdowns, it seemed that everyone was struggling to find toilet paper, flour, yeast, Lysol wipes, alcohol, and hand sanitizer to name a few. Eventually, things stabilized and the stores …
Returns Consumers have come to expect two basic things from retailers, particularly online eCommerce/omnichannel sellers; free and quick delivery and free returns. Those are the Holy Grail you need to offer in order to be competitive in the digital economy. In previous submissions, I addressed how free shipping isn’t always free. While retailers are savvy …
Why New Software? Why Now? Change does not always equal customer satisfaction. But in the digital age, change is ubiquitous, inevitable, and predictable. Yogi Berra once famously said, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Well, Yogi didn’t live in the digital era. These days, software needs updating. Whether to keep up with the latest …
We now operate in an eCommerce world where our customers have certain expectations. They have gotten used to things like free or inexpensive shipping. Others perhaps, expect next-day or 2-day delivery on items they purchase online. Either way, your customers demand choice and to stay competitive you need to offer what they want. They have …
Freight Costs at an All Time High We all know and understand why freight costs keep going up. You would have to be living under the proverbial rock not to comprehend what has happened to shipping logistics these past few years. Yet knowing the how and why doesn’t ease your frustration at what is happening …
If you are confused with all the new terminology in shipping/logistics, you are not alone.
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