Walmart is closing Store No. 8 and laid off some staff, crediting the incubator it had launched in 2017 with innovations that have transformed how customers shop at Walmart. In a statement to EcommerceBytes on Tuesday, a Walmart spokesperson said, Read more
Amazon announced on Friday it would begin delivering packages to customers in College Station, Texas by drones later this year. The news follows on the heels of its announcement last month that it would offer drone delivery to customers in Read more
How do you increase selection and lower cost for customers? If you’re Amazon, you spend a lot of time thinking about how to make the flow of goods from manufacturer to customer fast and efficient. And Amazon doesn’t just want Read more
eBay asked four of its tech leaders what’s next in the evolution of the online shopping experience and how they think ecommerce will evolve throughout 2021. Here are the trends and summaries of what they said: 1) Drone delivery for Read more
Walmart is testing delivery drones in a new pilot with Flytrex, which is an “end-to-end drone delivery company.” The program is focused on delivering select grocery and household essential items from Walmart stores. The pilot launched today in Fayetteville, North Read more
How would you feel about the Postal Service delivering your ecommerce packages by drone? (And how would you feel about receiving packages by drone?) The Official Mail Guide (OMG) said the USPS has been exploring drone use and is now Read more
UPS announced it is now certified to operate a drone airline, the first company to receive such government certification. The shipping carrier has been concentrating its drone efforts in healthcare in particular, and on Tuesday said it would initially expand Read more
A top Etsy executive will be one of the keynote speakers at the Home Delivery World conference taking place next month. Roman Sobieri, Head of Shipping, Listing Management and Payment Operations at Etsy, will speak about providing a frictionless shipping Read more
More Americans like the concept of drone delivery than dislike it, but a large number have yet to decide. That’s just one finding of a new national survey administered by the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General (OIG). With Read more
While online sellers are dealing with the impact of Sunday’s USPS rate hike, here’s some lighter news with regard to shipping and delivery, including news about a former eBay executive. Amazon Opens up About Delivery Drones Yahoo Tech’s David Pogue Read more
