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3 Insider Tips for Creating a 'Productized' Business (Even if You Offer Services)
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Take a page straight from retail and ecommerce by building your model around creation, marketing and selling.
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3 Ways to Offset Shipping Rate Increases
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The U.S. Postal Service has announced a temporary increase in holiday shipping rates. Such increases from all carriers are inevitable. Merchants should adopt a shipping strategy to manage costs over the long term.
Topics: rate, season, zone, box, increase, offset, shipping, cost, increases, zones, package, customers, ways. -
3 Ways to Reduce Shipping Costs
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Lowering shipping costs is a surefire way to improve profits. Same-day delivery, free shipping, standard transit, click-and-collect — all are candidates for cost reductions.
Topics: costs, package, items, weight, lightweight, materials, rates, volume, reduce, shipping, ways, size. -
5 Ways to Use Packaging Inserts to Increase Customer Loyalty and Revenue
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Packaging inserts are a low-cost and versatile way to delight customers and increase customer loyalty. Today, we'll share the top reasons packaging inserts are so useful and how you can start including them in your shipped packages.More
Topics: insert, ways, customer, social, brand, loyalty, packaging, great, increase, inserts, products, customers, package, revenue. -
6 Holiday Ecommerce Shipping Mistakes to Avoid
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Customers expect delivery. For online stores that sell tangible products, order fulfillment is arguably the single most essential task. It is the culmination of marketing, web development, and customer service. ...
Topics: ecommerce, holiday, orders, mistakes, need, shipping, business, customers, package, avoid, sales, customer. -
6 industries about to get disrupted by the Amazon-effect
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Amazon seems to be everywhere. It has disrupted the way we shop and has brought effects that have gone beyond customer expenditure to impact the economy. Amazon has impacted investments, job opportunities and inflation. In addition to retail, check out the five other industries Amazon is about to shake up.
Topics: providers, stores, package, amazon, industries, traditional, health, disrupted, online, hardware, brickandmortar, amazoneffect, delivery. -
8% fewer packages in Germany: ‘Recovery in sight’
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The courier, express, and parcel sector in Germany, known as KEP for short, faced turbulent times in 2022. There were 360 million fewer packages delivered than in the peak year of 2021. This translates to a 7.9 percent decline in package volume in Germany. In total, 4.15 billion shipments were…
Topics: growth, sector, decline, shipments, sight, parcel, volume, package, market, billion, kep, packages, fewer, germany, recovery. -
Amazon is bringing its delivery Lockers to Coachella
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Amazon Lockers are coming to a new location: Coachella. The retailer says it will make its storage lockers available to festival-goers, allowing them to order both in advance and same-day to have items like sunscreen, hats, phone chargers and more delivered to an on-site locker at the event at no extra charge during the festival […]
Topics: lockers, delivery, package, festival, customers, retailer, coachella, bringing, work, amazon, available. -
Amazon launches drone delivery in Europe
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Amazon announced plans to use drones while delivering packages to customers in the United Kingdom and Italy starting next year, with services set to commence at undisclosed locations before the end of 2024. Selected customers will be able to have items weighing up to approximately 2 kilograms delivered to their…
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Best Ecommerce Platform for Artists in 2022
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Choosing the best ecommerce platform for artists is one of the most important initial steps you’ll take as a creator to sell your work online. The digital landscape, with its host of easy-to-use website builders and sales tools, has opened…
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DHL is testing shipping without labels
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In several regions in Germany, parcel courier DHL is testing parcel shipping without printed labels. Instead, customers in these regions can put a handwritten package ID on the box. The German logistics company has sent an email to customers about the pilot. It is called ‘Taken without a printer’. It…
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Elastic Path Launches The Only Complete Package For D2C Brands Migrating Off Salesforce Commerce Cloud to a Composable Commerce Approach
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Built in Partnership with Salesforce Customers, This Package Empowers Brands With Everything They Need to Deliver Lightning-Fast, Innovative Experiences
After years of witnessing brands struggle to meet customer expectations and competitive pressures with their legacy Demandware (now Salesforce), “all-in-one" platform, we’re thrilled to share that today we launched the only complete package for D2C brands migrating off Salesforce Commerce Cloud to a Composable Commerce approach. Through close partnership with Salesforce customers, we have designed a package that provides everything brands need to power super-fast, differentiated experiences that meet the needs of today’s digital-first customers. The offering includes:
A Pre-Composed Solution™ for D2C brands migrating from Salesforce that eliminates the manual task of stitching together third party solutions
A collection of migration services & tools, built based on our experience with Salesforce migrations, that reduces the time and effort spent migrating
Multi-vendor solution assurance, Composable Commerce XA™, that de-risks the investment in multi-vendor, Composable Commerce for first-time adopters
Check out this blog post to learn why now is the time for this package, what it includes, and how to learn more.
Why Now?
When it comes to the commerce space, the impact of advanced digital technology is more prevalent than ever. Let’s take a trip down memory lane, shall we? Flashback to 2006 through 2011 when many D2C brands were first launching their websites. Most of these brands were selling rather simple products (t-shirts, sneakers) via desktop website only and didn’t have complex requirements for search, merchandising, payments, content-heavy experiences, and beyond. Plus, brands weren’t launching expansion strategies across geographies, business models, or touchpoints to drive revenue. For these basic commerce needs, the “all-in-one" platforms like Demandware (now Salesforce Commerce Cloud) gave brands everything they needed to get up and running and facilitate checkout.
Flash forward 10+ years, digital has drastically changed the world for both customers and brands. Now having a website is table stakes. Over the past two years we have seen customer expectations soar, only accelerated by the pandemic. At Elastic Path, a few changes we have seen include:
Investment in B2B digital transformation
Necessity of social shopping
Interest in marketplaces & subscriptions as new channels
Re-Invigoration in omnichannel amid the Pandemic
Focus on experiential commerce like shop-the-room/look, product configurators, and fit tools
Now, in order to differentiate in crowded markets, brands have to ensure they are powering consistent experiences across all off these new and emerging touchpoints PLUS drive revenue growth through expansion across geographies, touchpoints, brands, and beyond.
Why Does This All Matter?
A recent McKinsey report found that brands who improve customer experiences increase revenue by 15% and lower cost by 20%.
With these added pressures, more and more brands are re-assessing their dated, “all-in-one" Salesforce Commerce Cloud platform. They are left feeling like the commerce technology of 10+ years ago, when digital was just a channel, simply can’t keep up with the requirements of today’s digital-first world. By the time a new feature or experiences is built and pushed live, the update is no longer relevant. Plus, the dated codebase used to develop frontend experiences in Salesforce Commerce Cloud results is slow site speeds and therefore high bounce rates. Some brands bring on more external SI resources or hire additional expensive Salesforce developers to build workarounds or messy customizations. But this often leads to maxed out budgets and missed revenue growth targets.
An Alternative Approach to Commerce
Other brands feel the pain of rigid, Salesforce technology too strongly to stand by and customize their way out. Instead, they look at alternative platforms that leverage a Composable Commerce approach and are built with using cutting-edge microservices and headless architecture. Platforms like Commercetools, BigCommerce, and Elastic Path promise flexibility and innovation but, come with the manual task of integrating multiple vendors together and the perceived notion of technical complexity. And, the reality is, for brands used to Salesforce’s “all-in-one" platform, this transition can be overwhelming and feel risky.
The Complete Package for Migrating from Salesforce Commerce Cloud
At Elastic Path, we deeply understand this hesitancy. Any re-platforming project is stressful, but embracing a new approach to commerce adds to the risk-factor. CMOs and CIOs wonder “will my team be able to handle this?” “Will I get fired if this goes wrong?” For this reason, we partnered with Salesforce Commerce Cloud customers looking to make the change to Composable Commerce to build a package that provides everything for successful migration, implementation, and launch on Elastic Path. This complete package empowers eCommerce teams with the control to design and launch unique product-centric experiences, the flexibility to use their chosen best-of-breed partners, and the modern architecture to power lightning-fast experiences- all at a lower cost. The package includes:
A Pre-Composed Solution™ for D2C brands migrating from Salesforce that eliminates the manual task of stitching together third party solutions
A collection of migration services & tools, built based on our experience with Salesforce migrations, that reduces the time and effort spent migrating
Multi-vendor solution assurance, Composable Commerce XA™, that de-risks the investment in multi-vendor, Composable Commerce for first-time adopters
Let’s learn a bit more about each component of this package.
Pre-Composed Solution™ for D2C Brands Migrating from Salesforce
This new addition to our library of Pre-Composed Solutions™ reduces the risk of migrating to Composable Commerce by pre-integrating everything brands need to power engaging D2C shopping experiences. Our product managers and solution architects worked directly with Salesforce customers to understand what core commerce capabilities, best-of-breed technologies (search, content management, etc.), and framework for frontend experiences were necessary to exceed the power of Salesforce Commerce Cloud. Based on those learnings, this business-ready solution was built. It integrates a NextJS D2C reference architecture, Elastic Path Commerce Cloud for core commerce, and a selection of best-of-breed third-party technology.
By reducing the time spent custom building integrations and D2C-specific frontend experiences, this solution enables brands to get-to-market and start driving revenue faster. Plus, since it was built leveraging microservices-based Elastic Path Commerce Cloud, eCommerce teams have the ultimate control to bring their complex commerce visions to life without the expensive customizations and messy workaround that Salesforce would require.
Migration Tools & Services
A second component of the package is our migration tools and services. After working with brands migrating off of Salesforce Commerce Cloud, our product management and professional services teams were able to create these assets to help increase the velocity of and confidence in the migration and implementation process.
Data Export Tool: Built to streamline the data export specifically from Salesforce to Elastic Path, this tool reduces the manual time and effort commonly required for data migration so that brands can get live faster.
Migration Services: At Elastic Path our professional services team has developed a tried-and-true selection of services for migrating customers from Salesforce to Elastic Path. These services are specifically tuned for successful migrations and implementations and include a project discovery and requirement-validation workshop, an architecture overview, project scope & metrics alignment, comprehensive implementation plan & support, go-live support, and post-go-live support.
Composable Commerce XA™
The final component of this migration package is Composable Commerce XA™, our multi-vendor solution assurance. For brands migrating from Salesforce Commerce Cloud to Elastic Path, the concept of a best-of-breed, composable approach may be brand new. Whereas they are used to having a single point of contact for commerce (Salesforce), they now have many (Elastic Path, search, content management, payments, personalization, etc. vendors). We find that this new approach to commerce often leaves CIOs and Directors of Solutions with many questions. Most often we hear: “Who do I call when something goes wrong?” and “How will I pinpoint the source of the issue with numerous vendors involved?”
That is exactly why we built Composable Commerce XA™. Instead of struggling with those common questions, brands can simply call Elastic Path when an issue arises. Then, using our proprietary data monitoring, the Elastic Path team can pinpoint the source of the issue, work directly with relevant partners to resolve the issue, and bring a brand’s site back to full performance as soon as possible. This extra level of support gives brands the confidence they need to migrate and enthusiastically embrace a Composable Commerce approach.
Re-Imagine How You Do Commerce
If you are currently struggling to keep up with business requirements, competitive pressures, and customer expectations because you are stuck with dated, rigid Salesforce Commerce Cloud technology, there is another way. The time is now to embrace Composable Commerce to reimagine how you do commerce. With this new migration package, you can confidently power lightning-fast experiences, reduce TCO, and innovate without risk.
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Holiday Shipping Surcharges Are Coming
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Selling during the upcoming holiday shopping season will not be normal. For the first time in its history, the United States Postal Service is imposing a holiday surcharge on commercial packages. The price increases will begin on October 18 and run through December 27, 2020, and range from $0.24 to $1.50 per package.
Topics: coming, stores, shipping, holiday, surcharge, sellers, packages, surcharges, usps, package, merchants. -
How Small Businesses Can Take Advantage of the Australian Stimulus Package
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In light of the evolving situation around the COVID-19 pandemic, the Australian Government has released a number of economic responses to support individuals, households and businesses and improve stability in this particularly volatile environment.
Topics: stimulus, advantage, payment, support, apply, coronavirus, package, need, business, reduced, payments, businesses, small, australian. -
How Small Businesses Can Take Advantage of the U.S. Stimulus Package
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To aid small businesses and individuals impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States government recently passed three landmark acts, including the largest economic stimulus package in history.
Topics: business, funding, loan, loans, cares, employees, advantage, package, stimulus, small, act, businesses. -
How to Reduce Shipping Costs for Small Businesses: 7 Helpful Ways
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Looking to reduce your shipping costs and compete with big retailers and ecommerce giants as a small store? Learn how in this guide.
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Topics: small, helpful, weight, reduce, shopify, businesses, packaging, costs, local, package, customers, ways, rates, shipping. -
I Ordered Product Samples. And This Is What I Got.
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Over the years, I’ve heard so many negative things about the product quality on AliExpress. ‘The products are cheap,’ ‘it’s a scam,’ and ‘don’t buy Chinese products.’ Sorry to break this to you, but literally almost everything you own is made in China. So to assume that AliExpress doesn’t have […]
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Is Last-mile Delivery Ripe for Disruption?
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Competition, profit-taking, and emerging technologies may contribute to rapid and disruptive changes in last-mile package delivery worldwide. For online sellers, the "last mile" describes the final leg of a product's journey to a customer.
Topics: competition, packages, ecommerce, regional, package, lastmile, delivery, ripe, walmart, disruption, orders, shipping. -
Last-mile Delivery Attracts New Services, Providers
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With the holiday shopping season approaching, retailers and carriers are rolling out new delivery services. Smaller third-party providers are also entering the market, as last-mile delivery remains the most troublesome part of the package handling process.
Topics: company, ups, providers, usps, amazon, packages, program, package, services, lastmile, delivery, attracts, fdc. -
Lemonade launches pet insurance
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Lemonade today launched pet insurance, marking its entry into a new vertical of insurance for the first time since it launched its renters/home owners insurance in 2016. Lemonade CEO Daniel Schreiber told TechCrunch back in February that some 70% of Lemonade customers with a home owners or renters policy are also pet owners, and yet […]
Topics: pet, pets, women, lemonade, launches, techcrunch, tests, team, package, owners, insurance, policy. -
Next-day package delivery startup Veho valued at $1B following $125M Series A
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Veho's technology matches package delivery demand with qualified driver partners and lets customers know the actual time of delivery and even communicates when the driver is headed their way.
Topics: delivery, techcrunch, technology, ecommerce, customers, nextday, valued, veho, 1b, package, series, zur, grow, following, startup, company, experience. -
Package Free picks up $4.5 million to scale sustainable CPG products
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The climate crisis continues to be just that… a crisis. And it’s spurring people across the country (and globe) to take action, particularly when it comes to their own lifestyle. Lauren Singer is one such person. After studying Environmental Science and Politics at NYU, she started a blog called Trash Is For Tossers to make […]
Topics: cpg, brands, scale, company, million, sustainable, products, free, picks, ventures, package, singer, warehouse, techcrunch. -
Planet Express Review: Everything You Need to Know
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Is Planet Express legit? Quite a common question, I’d say. And understandably so, because Planet Express is a young company in the goods and mail forwarding space. At the time of writing this Planet Express review, it had barely earned…
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Topics: review, delivery, shipping, package, know, need, ecommerce, planet, express, business, warehouse, international, days. -
Porch Piracy Is Growing
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Porch piracy is on the rise, with 43 percent of American consumers surveyed saying they had an ecommerce delivery pilfered from their front porch in 2020, according to a recent report. C+R Research asked 2,000 self-reporting shoppers about delivery theft in November 2020.
Topics: growing, delivery, porch, retailer, door, theft, united, package, survey, piracy, ecommerce. -
Rewe expands its package service
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Customers of German supermarket Rewe can now choose from an even larger selection online to have it delivered with Rewe’s package service. They can order all kinds of private label products, durable foods and non-food items, all with no minimum order value. The online supermarket has expanded its assortment with… Continue reading
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Russia and China partner to control trackable package flow
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Russian Post and China Post have agreed on the joint development of the cPacket logistics service. With this service, the two postal operators want to control the flow of small traceable packages that will be exchanged between Russia and China. The joint development is the latest effort of both countries… Continue reading
Topics: service, delivery, data, logistics, post, russia, control, trackable, package, partner, russian, china, crossborder, flow, quality. -
Salesforce Commerce Cloud releases four quick-start pandemic business packs
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As we move deeper into the pandemic, it’s clear that the way we conduct business is changing, maybe forever. That means that business has to change too — and fast. But if you’ve never conducted business digitally or only nominally, how do you suddenly transform on the fly? Salesforce Commerce Cloud CEO Mike Micucci says […]
Topics: pandemic, weeks, online, quickstart, techcrunch, salesforce, quick, commerce, customers, start, business, package, cloud, packages, packs, releases. -
Sendcloud acquires AI startup Tracey
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Today, Sendcloud announced the acquisition of data platform Tracey. The acquisition allows Sendcloud to offer new data tools, such as AI-driven delivery predictions and near-real-time package monitoring. In this way, the shipping platform aims to offer the best customer experience. According to Sendcloud’s own research, 9 percent of consumers do…
Topics: data, package, customer, consumers, provide, tracey, startup, ai, delivery, acquires, sendcloud, shipping, retailers. -
Shippo Review: A Pliable Shipping Solution For SMB Merchants
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Shippo Review: An Easy-to-use Shipping Solution for SMB Merchants Do you find order fulfillment as the most twisted and wearisome part of your online business? You're not alone. I seem to find it quite sticky as well. Well, Shippo might…
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Topics: review, solution, labels, smb, merchants, orders, plan, shippo, pliable, allows, online, package, shipping, need. -
Shopee Malaysia launches support package for sellers
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Shopee Malaysia has announced a US$3.5 million support package for sellers on its network, aiming to assist around 70,000 SMEs.
Topics: shopee, support, sellers, malaysia, online, smes, retail, vouchers, million, paid, ho, launches, package. -
Squarespace Pricing Plans in the UK (Mar 2022)
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When it comes to Squarespace pricing, UK business owners can choose from a variety of different packages, tailor-made to suit specific entrepreneurial needs. You can start with something simple, like the Squarespace personal plan, which focuses on individuals hoping to…
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Topics: squarespace, plans, mar, pricing, uk, plan, commerce, features, access, package, youll, website, month. -
The Beginner’s Guide to ePacket Delivery: Everything Your Need to Know
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If you have any plans to ship some of your products from China, ePacket delivery is one of the most common options to do so. It's becoming rather typical for online stores and many types of business owners to purchase…
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Topics: package, know, beginners, epackets, epacket, customer, guide, tracking, products, need, delivery, china, shipping, customers. -
The Importance of Shipment Insurance During the 2020 Holiday Shopping Season
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Butterflies. We all know that feeling. The swirly, gooey, fluttery feeling that tumbles in our stomachs when something exciting is…
Topics: value, brands, cost, customer, brand, reasons, customers, package, shipping, need, holiday, insurance. -
The Ultimate Shipping Strategy Cheat Sheet
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The best tools, resources, advice & information you need to create a branded shipping strategy for your ecommerce business.
Topics: strategy, customers, packages, create, package, packaging, branded, experience, best, youll, shipping, supplies, cheat, unboxing, sheet. -
The Unexpected Pros & Cons of Sign-On Bonuses
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Negotiating salary with candidates can sometimes be tricky -- particularly if you're extremely excited about a potential candidate, but she's asking for salary well-above the set salary range for the role.
Topics: offer, salary, compensation, company, bonus, total, unexpected, cons, pros, candidates, bonuses, signon, package, candidate. -
The average shipping costs in Europe
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Shipping costs are one of the most important factors for ecommerce businesses. If you’re an online retailer, it’s important to know how much sending a package will cost you. But the average cost of shipping is different in every country. The 2018 Shipping Price Index shows you what the most… Continue reading
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This startup solves the management of shipments in your ecommerce or physical store and helps you save up to 70% in logistics expenses
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The SkydropX statup has the mission of making shipping management easier for ecommerce and all types of entrepreneurs, giving them access to very competitive parcel prices.
Topics: delivery, parcel, shipments, startup, platform, solves, shipping, tool, save, helps, expenses, logistics, skydropx, entrepreneur, management, store, physical, package, business. -
Tmall Global offers relief package to merchants worldwide
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Alibaba’s B2C platform Tmall Global is offering support to its merchants during the coronavirus epidemic, including waiving services fees.
Topics: worldwide, package, offers, relief, world, merchants, provide, support, fee, global, tmall, reduce, alibabas, service. -
U.S. Stimulus Package 2020: Everything You Need to Know
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On March 27, President Donald Trump signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, also known as the CARES Act. This $2 trillion U.S. stimulus package is the largest emergency relief bill in American history. The bill plans to help people, families, businesses, and the economy cope with the […]
Topics: receive, know, package, bank, money, payments, stimulus, irs, check, tax, help, need. -
You can now give Amazon the keys to your car
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Last week, I was sitting in the office, waiting for an Amazon package to be delivered to my house. Typically, the driver would just leave the package at the door, where anybody could steal it. But this time around, the process was a bit different because the driver arrived, used his phone to unlock the […]
Topics: driver, drivers, incar, app, package, access, car, delivery, key, amazon, keys.