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Next-Day Delivery and Same-Day Delivery

Next-day delivery and same-day delivery are hot shipping topics. And they impact shopping. Their use will grow for the foreseeable future.   Background For a long time, buyers knew mail and deliveries would take days or weeks. In fact, the … Continue reading

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Engineering a Great Retail Customer Experience

In 2017, we have presented several posts on the retail experience. The topic is that important! Here are some of these posts: Omnichannel and Great Customer Experiences How Good Is the Customer Experience YOU Offer? Informative Infographic on the Customer Shopping Experience 2017 … Continue reading

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UPS to Aid Retailers in Return Process

Many firms not named Amazon are looking for a way to greatly improve the customer return process. Now, UPS comes to the rescue. As Andria Cheng reports for eMarketer: “In retailers’ fight against Amazon, it looks like there is a new … Continue reading

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